Google privacy policy changes in 2012
Might be of interest to some AOIR'ers here, either as a matter of scholastic research or just a personal concern. -- rick Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out By Cecilia Kang, Tuesday, January 24, 4:33 PM Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web. The Web giant announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine. Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for the first time, it is combining data across its Web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users. Consumers won’t be able to opt out of the changes, which take effect March 1. And experts say the policy shift will invite greater scrutiny from federal regulators of the company’s privacy and competitive practices. < -- > http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/google-tracks-consumers-acros... Google Blog Post @ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/updating-our-privacy-policies-and-ter... --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it.
It is indeed. I just deleted my google+ account, and now need to wean myself from google calendar. Since I use this email address mostly for lists and such, I'll probably keep this. I hate not using google calendar, since I've found it works so well for me. Does anyone know of an alternative that's more private? I have a domain, so if I have to install it myself, I can do that. Tery On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>wrote:
Might be of interest to some AOIR'ers here, either as a matter of scholastic research or just a personal concern. -- rick
Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out
By Cecilia Kang, Tuesday, January 24, 4:33 PM
Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web.
The Web giant announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine.
Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for the first time, it is combining data across its Web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users.
Consumers won’t be able to opt out of the changes, which take effect March 1. And experts say the policy shift will invite greater scrutiny from federal regulators of the company’s privacy and competitive practices.
< -- >
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/google-tracks-consumers-acros...
Google Blog Post @
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/updating-our-privacy-policies-and-ter...
--- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it.
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In comparing the Washington Post article, it's always fascinating to see how different media outlets will characterize the same news story: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/google-to-update-its-privacy-policies-and-terms-of-service/?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto<https://exchange.brooklaw.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=dc657cbe0d214047ae7e6fa8d1b8f41f&URL=http%3a%2f%2fbits.blogs.nytimes.com%2f2012%2f01%2f24%2fgoogle-to-update-its-privacy-policies-and-terms-of-service%2f%3fsmid%3dtw-nytimes%26seid%3dauto> “If you’re signed in, we MAY combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services,” Alma Whitten, Google’s director of privacy for product and engineering, wrote in a company blog post. “In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more INTUITIVE Google experience.” Still trying to figure out what "intuitive" means... -- *Heather Maxie Federman<https://plus.google.com/u/0/115860311404901597758/posts> * Brooklyn Law School '12 ph: 201.952.1094 Blog: DevilsAreHere <http://devilsarehere.com/> Email: HMFederman@Gmail.com On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Tery G <teryg93@gmail.com> wrote:
It is indeed. I just deleted my google+ account, and now need to wean myself from google calendar. Since I use this email address mostly for lists and such, I'll probably keep this. I hate not using google calendar, since I've found it works so well for me. Does anyone know of an alternative that's more private? I have a domain, so if I have to install it myself, I can do that.
Tery
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org
wrote:
Might be of interest to some AOIR'ers here, either as a matter of scholastic research or just a personal concern. -- rick
Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out
By Cecilia Kang, Tuesday, January 24, 4:33 PM
Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web.
The Web giant announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine.
Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for the first time, it is combining data across its Web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users.
Consumers won’t be able to opt out of the changes, which take effect March 1. And experts say the policy shift will invite greater scrutiny from federal regulators of the company’s privacy and competitive practices.
< -- >
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/google-tracks-consumers-acros...
Google Blog Post @
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/updating-our-privacy-policies-and-ter...
--- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from
it.
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Dear All, Here is the first paper in relation to the research project: 'Socio Media Education' It is called 'Attention to Attention - Reflexions on new Media in Education'. It was presented at the Danish Conference of Sociology: Troubled Identities. 19 – 20 January 2012 here in Aarhus. It is easy to read because it is based over the oral presentation on the conference. http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/43983449/Attention_to_attention.pdf Enjoy your reading Jesper Abstract In these years digital media and wireless networks are introduced in upper secondary schools in Denmark. This implies new “attentional objects” like updates on Facebook or tweets on Twitter within instant reach of the pupils and teachers. Also it implies new kinds of attention (awareness) like when pupils try to listen to the teacher and simultaneously participate in online games. To this new social setting the teachers has reacted with either prohibition or unconcern. What has not been realised is that the introduction of new media profoundly challenges the way attention hitherto has functioned as a psychic prerequisite for the social interaction between pupils and teachers. New kinds of “split attention” arise and new kinds of social mediation (regulation and “use”) of psychic attention become necessary if teaching in the new digital medium milieu shall be beneficial. In this paper we qualify this interpretation theoretically through systems theory and medium theory. Further we present initial results from the action research project Socio Media Education (SME) in which we work with how teachers and pupils can handle the new attention-demanding situation, so the new media do not mean spoiled teaching, but new expanded possibilities for teaching and learning provided by the new media. Our core postulate is that the teachers and pupils have to develop social reflexion on ‘the practice of attention’ in the class, both on a social and individual level; use the new media to facilitate this reflexion /and/ simultaneously (based on the on-going reflexion) learn to cope better with the new attention-demanding medium milieu, which means both to restrict oneself and behave more socially responsible and to develop better awareness skills (e.g. multiplexing skills). Only this (and not prohibition against Facebook, online games etc. neither unconcern and ignorance of the new media and their consequences for attention)- we argue - can generate adequate social norms regulating psychic awareness in the new digital learning environment -- --- Jesper Tække Associate Professor, PhD Information and Media Studies Aarhus University http://www.jespertaekke.dk imvjet@hum.au.dk +45 8716 2021
Dear Jesper,
It is called 'Attention to Attention - Reflexions on new Media in Education'.
Maybe you could be interested by the following book on the subject of attention: Roda, C. Ed.(2011), Human Attention in Digital Environments. Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5659616/?site_locale=en_GB (reviews at: http://ac.aup.fr/~croda/reviewsHADE.shtml ). Note: <self promotion> I am not really neutral by mentioning this book, since I am the author of one of the chapters. (I also coordinated the research project AtGentive -attentive agents for collaborative learners- which provided many input for this book). </self promotion> Connecting attention & influence. On the subject of online social attention, I have found a very strong similarity with online social attention and the concept of influence (which is related to the "attention that you get" from others) for which there is quite a lot of research that is conducted today (at Yahoo Labs, Hp labs, etc...) and area where new services are proposed (cf. Klout.com ). Best regards, Thierry Thierry Nabeth Senior research scientist. Skype: t.nabeth http://www.calt.insead.edu/?Thierry%20Nabeth -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jesper Sent: lundi 30 janvier 2012 15:58 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] attention to attention Dear All, Here is the first paper in relation to the research project: 'Socio Media Education' It is called 'Attention to Attention - Reflexions on new Media in Education'. It was presented at the Danish Conference of Sociology: Troubled Identities. 19 20 January 2012 here in Aarhus. It is easy to read because it is based over the oral presentation on the conference. http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/43983449/Attention_to_attention.pdf Enjoy your reading Jesper Abstract In these years digital media and wireless networks are introduced in upper secondary schools in Denmark. This implies new attentional objects like updates on Facebook or tweets on Twitter within instant reach of the pupils and teachers. Also it implies new kinds of attention (awareness) like when pupils try to listen to the teacher and simultaneously participate in online games. To this new social setting the teachers has reacted with either prohibition or unconcern. What has not been realised is that the introduction of new media profoundly challenges the way attention hitherto has functioned as a psychic prerequisite for the social interaction between pupils and teachers. New kinds of split attention arise and new kinds of social mediation (regulation and use) of psychic attention become necessary if teaching in the new digital medium milieu shall be beneficial. In this paper we qualify this interpretation theoretically through systems theory and medium theory. Further we present initial results from the action research project Socio Media Education (SME) in which we work with how teachers and pupils can handle the new attention-demanding situation, so the new media do not mean spoiled teaching, but new expanded possibilities for teaching and learning provided by the new media. Our core postulate is that the teachers and pupils have to develop social reflexion on the practice of attention in the class, both on a social and individual level; use the new media to facilitate this reflexion /and/ simultaneously (based on the on-going reflexion) learn to cope better with the new attention-demanding medium milieu, which means both to restrict oneself and behave more socially responsible and to develop better awareness skills (e.g. multiplexing skills). Only this (and not prohibition against Facebook, online games etc. neither unconcern and ignorance of the new media and their consequences for attention)- we argue - can generate adequate social norms regulating psychic awareness in the new digital learning environment -- --- Jesper Tække Associate Professor, PhD Information and Media Studies Aarhus University http://www.jespertaekke.dk imvjet@hum.au.dk +45 8716 2021 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Hi all, I have a couple of questions about this and am hoping someone here might know. My understanding is that Google's new privacy violations occur only if you're logged into one of their services. So if you don't leave your Google mail or calendar logged in all day, the new cross-site tracking they're planning can't occur . . . is that right? Also, does anyone know where the Chrome browser fits into all of this? It's become the browser I use most, but if using it adds to my loss of privacy, I can easily switch back to Safari or Firefox. I know it's impossible to retain anything like complete privacy online, but Google has really annoyed me with this move. I've ditched Google+ and traded in Google calendar for iCal. Still looking for a different search engine, and wondering about the browser. Last on the list might be to switch my various group memberships to a different email address; I haven't decided about that yet since my other accounts are POP mail and I'm not sure I want volumes of list mail downloading to my iPad. It would be very strange to not have a google affiliation for the first time in many years. Thanks for any information. Tery Griffin On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>wrote:
Might be of interest to some AOIR'ers here, either as a matter of scholastic research or just a personal concern. -- rick
Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out
By Cecilia Kang, Tuesday, January 24, 4:33 PM
Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web.
The Web giant announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine.
Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for the first time, it is combining data across its Web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users.
Consumers won’t be able to opt out of the changes, which take effect March 1. And experts say the policy shift will invite greater scrutiny from federal regulators of the company’s privacy and competitive practices.
< -- >
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/google-tracks-consumers-acros...
Google Blog Post @
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/updating-our-privacy-policies-and-ter...
--- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it.
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For a privacy-aware search engine, I'd recommend DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html Very good results in most cases -- though Scholar and people search still take me to Google sometimes. -Jodi On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Tery G <teryg93@gmail.com> wrote:
Still looking for a different search
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