Hi 'Muggers, Here is a good and readable article on how our online privacy is collapsing. There are no new mechanisms in place, but the trend is that tracking organiszation such as double-click (a Google acquisition) that once only inhabited a small fraction of websites, are now ubiquitous. Another interesting fact is that the facebook "like" button, or the Tweet button, not only server the purpose of allowing you to post a website to facebook or Twitter, but they double as trackers. With Google's recent change of policy, they are now unifying all the data they collect from ad-mob, double-click, Google analytics, Google search engine, gmail, youtube, Picasa and others services. This means that in many cases there is a record of the number of seconds you spend on each page during the evening and it is often easily coupled to you name and much more if they so choose.
Many people say they have no problem with that I wholly support their right to share whatever part of their lives they choose, but I think it is important that we are at least aware of situation so we can make our own informed choice. A funny aside is that the on self same web-page that I am sharing with you below, "do not track plus" tells me there are: 3 social buttons tracking you 4 ad networks tracking you 8 compaines tracking you For a total of 15! short url: http://tinyurl.com/74u48a3 Cheers, Carlo -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
