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Google Chief: If you care about your privacy you're a criminal

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temuchin:
funny that site is running google ads.   just checked with ad-blocker plus.
lol; when in doubt employ Tor.   :)

isukianime:

--- Quote from: temuchin on December 10, 2009, 07:35:26 PM ---funny that site is running google ads.   just checked with ad-blocker plus.
lol; when in doubt employ Tor.   :)

--- End quote ---

Tor is too slow. I just use a VPN service.

carniska:
I think they have false reasoning in that article (~Eric Schmidt). I don't care about Google gathering info of what I'm searching. But I care about advertisements (I hate sponsored links ~so I'm using adblock) and unaccurate/random search results regarding the data they have collected -- when you are logged in/using cookies in google search. The search engine behaves differently when you use your friends or some other public computers eg. in library. The first ~few results may be exact, but then it starts to variate. And occasionally when your search behaviour changes, google fails.

Google learns from your searches and it tries to give as accurate results as possible to your taste and regarding your previous search behaviour and what you have clicked -- or something -- as well as providing more accurate advertisement. So the best way to use Google search is to use it only in your computer or login to your Google account (or erase the gathered data when your search behaviour changes). In other hand it's not fair setup. This is the reason why I sometimes use other search engines when I'm using more exceptional keywords or try to find 'rare content'/'page'.

The article tries to courage you to accept and use google with privacy content. And if you wont accept it, they call you as criminal. My point of view differs regarding how the privacy data affects to searches and why the privacy thing is sometimes bad for the actual search results. Criminal acts are different - eg. I can see Eric Schmidt offending my human rights when I'm browsing web via google and he calls me criminal when my search behaviour changes and I want to clear or prefer not to use my private data regarding search results. I'm not creating the links to criminal sites, Google search engine is (check the screenshot where you find out that browsing anonymously/clean browser setup,  google provides direct links to rapidshare/filetube ~its not my doing :P // and on the contrary, it's so obvious that I'm using torrents and google search engine gives more accurate results to my taste when I'm using Googles private data xD ) So lets sue the guy :D

simple example (not the best one)
google chrome: anonymous/incognito
firefox: logged to google account


Edit: with this example when I log to my account, the result is more accurate to my taste ~obvious. But when I'm using google anonymously or from other computer, I need to search with command: "robotech novel" -amazon -buy -shop +"Jack McKinney". And sometimes Google fails with + and - additions. As well it fails when my search behaviour changes.

Hope you get the point what I'm trying to express... :)

bloody000:
What he said is very British(If you have nothing to hide...);).

molbjerg:
Unfortuntaly it's not just a British idea, it's global.

It's generally a generational thing I find.

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