Mary,
Thanks for the pointer to this article.
In respect of the nuclear option (the articles words) I suspect
Adrian and all are right, there are a limited range of business
models that will support these services and the only real option is
to stop using search engines.
However you can follow all the other tips in the article about how to
use your privacy options to best effect, and there are some online
resources which can help deal with some of the other tricks
companies, organizations and government are using.
In the US there is quite a lot of publicity at the moment about
geotagging data, and military personnel in particular are being
advised to rethink their use of geotagging. Several military deaths
in Afghanistan/Iraq have apparently been attributed to the posting of
geotagged data.
All that said tinyurl is thought by some to compromise privacy (again
what other business model is there for any free service?), and our
ISPs and phone companies are obliged to keep quite a lot, so really
why pick on Google?
J
At 08:45 02/03/2012, you wrote:
>Google may have been warning users for a month about their change in privacy
>policy - but I didn't see anything using Google as a search engine in
>Firefox!
>
>Lot of useful advice here
>http://preview.tinyurl.com/7rvxepq
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