firefox, trackers and ghostery

[Sajan Parikh]

Let me clarify before people jump on me.  Yes, in many cases Google CAN 
put a name and email on things if say you logged into he Shopping site 
using your Google account.  Or Facebook would know if you logged in via 
Facebook, however...if you're using those
companies to authorize things...you really can't be allowed to complain 
that they know.

Or perhaps you have a Google+ profile and have filled out your Twitter 
handle there, and then you login elsewhere using Twitter...if you're 
doing things like this, you're not allowed to complain.

Sajan Parikh
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On 07/17/2013 06:23 AM, Sajan Parikh wrote:
> On 07/17/2013 06:07 AM, pete smout wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It is a Very important discussion to have (if not Ubuntu related) & 
>> let us try and involve as many people as possible in this discussion! 
>> As it affects everybody.
>>
>> And let us not make it personal, our web designer friend is doing a 
>> perfectly logical thing, trying to improve their service. My big 
>> gripe is what Google (and others) then do with the data they have 
>> gathered, from millions of sites (the one site improving it 'offer' 
>> is fine), but the data gathered by Google Analytics (for example 
>> there are others!) is stored for years and not related to one site 
>> but lots and why is it personalized ie the IP address stored, surely 
>> if it was only to improve products and services offered anonymous 
>> data would give the end user the same information (how many visits, 
>> what products were viewed, even what browser was used on what system).
>>
>> Obviously there can be legit reasons for personalized data to be 
>> viewed but this should be the exception rather than the norm.
>>
>> Pete
> Hi Pete, I'll try to make a response to the overall post shortly. At 
> work right now.  However the reason that Google can't provide the 
> individual users insight into their own data is actually at the heart 
> of my view of this.  It's because even they don't really know /who/ it 
> is.  To them, it's literally just an IP address.  They can't 
> accurately put a name or email address to it, so there's no way for 
> them to make this data viewable by you. Perhaps that'll ease the minds 
> of a few right there.
>
> Also a quick response to a point about localized laws and 
> regulations.  I'd like to say that any and every point I've made, it's 
> been a given that local laws and regulations take precedence.
>
> Thanks,
> Sajan Parikh
>
>

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