{"id":4596,"date":"2012-01-27T17:22:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T21:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:07:48","slug":"changes-to-google-privacy-policy-and-terms-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2012\/01\/27\/changes-to-google-privacy-policy-and-terms-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Google<\/a>If you have a Google<\/a> account, you should be aware that Google is updating its Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service Policy<\/a> effective March 1, 2012. Instead of different policies for each of its different services, there will now be one policy for all of their services. What does this mean for you? Basically, that it will become more difficult for you to be anonymous when you login to Google<\/a> and use various Google services<\/a>. Google<\/a> will not only be gathering information about you, but will also use that information to “offer you tailored content.” With these new policies, Google<\/a> is going to combine the information that it gathers from its different services to “push” content to you such as ads for products based on your interests\u00a0\u00e0 la Facebook. In fact, Google<\/a> has recently launched its own social network, Google+<\/a>. But even if you don’t login,\u00a0 Google<\/a>‘s servers automatically record the page requests made when you visit their sites. These \u201cserver logs\u201d typically include your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.<\/p>\n

“Google now watches consumers practically everywhere they go on the Web — and in real life, when using a mobile phone,” said Christopher Soghoian<\/a>, an independent privacy and security researcher in Washington D.C. “No single entity should be trusted with this much sensitive data.”<\/p>\n

The main issue with Google<\/a>\u2019s new policy is that it will now be combining information that it has on users. This could mean, for instance, that when users search via Google<\/a>, the company will use their activities on sister sites like Gmail<\/a> and YouTube<\/a> to influence those users\u2019 search results. Google<\/a> has not done that before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have a Google account, you should be aware that Google is updating its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service Policy effective March 1, 2012. Instead of different policies for each of its different services, there will now be one policy for all of their services. What does this mean for you? Basically, that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6099,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions\/6099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}