Thursday, March 1, 2012, Google will implement a far reaching change to its privacy policy. Google will now default its gmail and search engine users into a policy that allows Google to track your moves on the Internet and sell that information to Google advertisers. This new single point information will let advertisers target their ads and pitch to your patterns online.
So what can one do to protect your privacy? Several items are available to help out. What we do is use the Firefox Browser (not Google Chrome) as our main browser. We have the Privacy settings in Firfox set for "Tell Websites I don't want to be Tracked". If you have a gmail account do the following today!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect
If you do use Chrome there is a plug in that can stop all the Google data gathering: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/
Also always remember that if you login to Gmail, then Sign out when you are done. That also minimizes what can be tracked. Here is an article on more ideas including the above: http://www.kplu.org/post/protecting-your-privacy-amid-google-policy-changes
It really doesn't matter which search engine you are using, they all track your searches. So be careful out there and remember big brother is watching.
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