Comments on: Privacy advocates praise Google's new link

Company's decision to add a link to its home page that leads to its Privacy Center is enough to quell a controversy.

[Lerianis]

No, this will not satisfy privacy advocates. It should be in MUCH bigger print, on par with the 'Business Solutions' link at least!

[Penguinisto]

According to the article, it appears that it has satisfied them. Deal with it.

[BIGELLOW]

Hahaha...

[Ellises]

And yet my iGoogle page doesn't have the privacy link on it. it still says (c) 2008 Google.

[BIGELLOW]

The iGoogle page has ALWAYS had the link to the privacy policy on it, and still does. Are you somehow missing the link that says "Privacy Policy"?

[sandman619]

The California law requires that the privacy link be conspicuous & suggests that would be the website Homepage or first significant page after the homepage. The privacy link appears on Google's homepage, but not the individual user's iGoogle pages

Cheers !

[FlyingRobotMonkeysAttack]

"At least one member of the blogosphere asserts that the link doesn't resolve the issue"

- If you read the article, it doesn't really seem that the author was being very serious about his complaints. Actually, according to his comment at the bottom, he was making fun of the California law.

[blabtech]

privacy is a good thing I guess...

http://blabtech.blogspot.com

[nwtconner]

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[Mary_Pozo]

Very good article.

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[JCPayne]

They should give it up! Nothing on the Internet is anonymous. Whoever your ISP is knows everything you do online and they have already started to legally say the own the rights/ records of whatever you do online... (AT&T already said this regarding your phone records.)

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Source:
AT&T rewrites rules: Your data isn't yours - By David Lazarus
Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2006
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/06/21/BUG9VJHB9C1.DTL&type=business

AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday. The changes are significant because they appear to give the telecom giant more latitude when it comes to sharing customers' personal data with government officials.

The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it "to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."

The policy also indicates that AT&T will track the viewing habits of customers of its new video service -- something that cable and satellite providers are prohibited from doing.

Moreover, AT&T (formerly known as SBC) is requiring customers to agree to its updated privacy policy as a condition for service -- a new move that legal experts say will reduce customers' recourse for any future data sharing with government authorities or others. [http:// . . . |http:// . . . ]
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But besides AT&T, all of the Comcasts, Coxes, Time Warners, Verizons, Qwests, etc. they all know what you do online. The Cable Companies can prob. even tally what you watch on TV with their cable boxes albeit without mentioning you personally. People need to get over the idea that whatever is done online is anonymous.... Even those sites that offer Anon protection. How many of you actually know who is running that site? And how do you know they themselves aren't saving your info to get your bank account info or other stuff... If people would act online in a matter that they wouldn't mind exposing to the whole world they wont have any worries.

[jollyjim]

George Orwell's 1984 IS HERE - BIG BROTHER IS ALWAYS WATCHING AND LISTENING.

[t26l]

THIS ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH!!!!1

go to google dot com and paste this into the address bar and press enter. this is what it should look like.

this: (select and copy-paste into address bar of http://www.google.com)
javascript:window.onresize=new Function('var f=document.links[http://document.links.length-1|http://document.links.length-1];f.style.position="absolute";f.style.top=0;f.style.left=0;f.style.fontSize=Math.floor(document.body.offsetWidth/3.25)+"px";');void(window.onresize());

[t26l]

darn it all and the weirdness. it put junk in my code. copy this: javascript:window.onresize=new Function('var d=document,l=d.links,f=l[http://l.length-1|http://l.length-1];f.style.position="absolute";f.style.top=0;f.style.left=0;f.style.fontSize=Math.floor(document.body.offsetWidth/3.25)+"px";');void(window.onresize());

[t26l]

umm, maybe this:
javascript:window.onresize=new Function('var f=document.links'+unescape('%5b')+'document.links.length-1];f.style.position="absolute";f.style.top=0;f.style.left=0;f.style.fontSize=Math.floor(document.body.offsetWidth/3.25)+"px";');void(window.onresize());

[private-internet]

Why is everyone complaining about Google?s privacy statements? Google is a centralized service so you have to assume that Google is always acting in your interest ? a big assumption. New technologies that are available that lets you create your own private internet ? this can remove some people?s objections to centralized web services.

[faceless128]

''Also her blog's title--"What comes next in this series? 13, 33, 53, 61, 37, 28..."--was remarkably obscure.''

it's the number of words on google's homepage. it's 28 now, and stayed at 28 because they swapped 'Google' for 'Privacy'

[TorrentSearch]

The iGoogle page has ALWAYS had the link to the privacy policy on it, and still does. There is a video at http://www.picktorrent.com torrent search engine on this topic, everything becomes very clear.

[TorrentSearch]

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