{"id":597,"date":"2010-05-28T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=597"},"modified":"2010-05-28T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T23:36:10","slug":"paranoia-and-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2010\/05\/paranoia-and-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Paranoia and Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/daedalist\">Twitter<\/a> or Facebook accounts you know that I&#8217;m more than mildly alarmed by their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/facebooks_zuckerberg_says_the_age_of_privacy_is_ov.php\">cavalier attitude towards privacy<\/a>. Let it not be said that I unfairly and blindly focus on one target. I use far more Google services than I do Facebook, and they&#8217;ve had many more years of practice at collecting and collating personal information.<\/p>\n<p>I will occasionally go through a privacy binge and find things to remove from my account. For those of you of a like mind, I found this thoughtfully put together article on Computerworld:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/print\/9176406\/The_smart_paranoid_s_guide_to_using_Google?taxonomyName=Data+Security&amp;taxonomyId=203#advertisement\">The smart paranoid&#8217;s guide to using Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some generic stuff in there about blocking ads. Overall, I have no issue with ads on the web, because they&#8217;re the only thing keeping it free. However, these ads do track our behaviour and build identifiable profiles, so it may be worthwhile using a browser plugin to block them.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, you may want to review exactly what Google is remembering about your searches:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Google uses this information for a number of benign purposes, such as fine-tuning its search algorithms and determining wider patterns in Web searches for its Google Trends page. But however useful it is to the company, it&#8217;s probably a safe bet that you don&#8217;t want anyone to see every search you&#8217;ve ever done.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I strongly recommend a good read, and applying at least some of the recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5549082\/a-paranoid-guide-to-google-data-privacy\">Lifehacker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following my Twitter or Facebook accounts you know that I&#8217;m more than mildly alarmed by their cavalier attitude towards privacy. Let it not be said that I unfairly and blindly focus on one target. I use far more Google services than I do Facebook, and they&#8217;ve had many more years of practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15],"tags":[33,426],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-9D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}