Google Privacy Quickies

Several notes about Google and privacy. First, Lucas123 informs us that Google's global privacy counsel blogged about an improvement in Google's data-retention policies: the company plans to anonymize data it stores about users after 18 months — a slight improvement on the "18 to 24 months" of the previous policy. This move may have come as a response to pressure from European regulators. Next, Spamicles sends in word that an EFF attorney has been photographed by Google's Street View. The funny thing is, this isn't the first time it's happened. Finally, word from reader tamar that if you choose to share a video from Google Video to another social network like MySpace, your username and password get sent over http in plaintext, rather than the more secure https.

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Re:Photographed in public? Oh well!

[Anonymous Coward]

If it takes a $20 a pack tax and firing anyone who so much as brings a cigarette to any place of employement, let's do it.

Fuck you, my habits are none of your damn business. It's not like people are sitting around blowing smoke in your face, so quit your bitching. If you don't want to hang around people while they're smoking, don't.

But hey, if we're going to outlaw every little pet peeve, can we add religion to the list? It makes people act like sheep. It's bad for them. Not only that, their constant preaching to "non-believers" is a nuisance.