GOOGLE CRIMINALS !

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Not only are they tracking you but ........ AAPL is doing this too.

Put up your finds, this is my folder going back to only 06 22 2010.


Some Android apps caught covertly sending GPS data to advertisers
By Ryan Paul | Last updated 6 days ago
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/09/some-android-apps-found-to-covertly-send-gps-data-to-advertisers.ars

" The results of a study conducted by researchers from Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs have revealed that a significant number of popular Android applications transmit private user data to advertising networks without explicitly asking or informing the user. The researchers developed a piece of software called TaintDroid that uses dynamic taint analysis to detect and report when applications are sending potentially sensitive information to remote servers. "

" Concerns about unauthorized access to private information by Android applications were raised earlier this year when a popular wallpaper application was found surreptitiously transmitting the user's phone number to a remote server in China. Google's investigation of the matter revealed that the developer of the application was simply using the phone number as a unique identifier for user accounts and was not threatening the user's security or doing anything nefarious. "

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Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google,
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/100005766/eric-schmidt-getting-close-to-the-creepy-line/

" Schmidt was talking to The Atlantic about the possibility of a Google implant – a chip under your skin that would track you and provide easy web access. That, Schmidt said, was probably over ‘the creepy line’.
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These links are cherry picked, something in every link that raised my eyebrows.


Google faces prosecution in France for 'accidentally' smashing privacy laws with Street View
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1288378/Google-faces-prosecution-France-accidentally-smashing-privacy-laws-Street-View.html

White House, Google violate lobbying pledge
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/White-House_-Google-violate-lobbying-pledge-97103794.html

Legal Trouble
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6604YG20100701

Group Calls for Hearings Into Google’s Ties to CIA and NSA
http://www.prisonplanet.com/group-calls-for-hearings-into-google%E2%80%99s-ties-to-cia-and-nsa.html
"Google is a key intelligence asset. It has supplied the core search technology for Intellipedia, a highly-secured online CIA system and has shared a close relationship with both the CIA, NSA, and government national security officials."

37 STATES PROBE
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/07/google-street-view.html

CIA
http://911review.org/Alex/reference/google_and_CIA.html

Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/

WEB CONTROL
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/08/google_and_verizon_have_come.html?hpid=topnews

CIA
http://911review.org/Alex/reference/google_and_CIA.html

Google considering web access control
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=137690&sectionid=3510208

Privacy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/maggieshiels/2010/09/anti_google_campaign.html

Group Attacks Google Privacy, Schmidt with Times Square Ad
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368695,00.asp

Texas
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/04/technology/04google.html?_r=2&src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fn ational%2Findex.jsonp

Google Engineer Stalked Teens, Spied on Chats (Updated) [ forget about governments ]
http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats?skyline=true&s=i

Czechs halt Google Street View
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11312390

Greece bans Google Street View
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6276322.ece

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Google collecting personal WiFi data by mistake - Australia
Google has said that the cars used for its "Street View" mapping service had been mistakenly collecting personal data that people sent over unsecured WiFi networks for several years.


Link..... (http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/google-collecting-personal-wifi-data-by-mistake-20100515-v542.html)


Privacy watchdog probes Google's Wi-Fi data harvest - Australia

The Australian Privacy Commission launches investigation into Google’s collection of Wi-Fi data following revelations by the company that it had "mistakenly” collected personal data when taking...


Link..... (http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/privacy-watchdog-probes-googles-wifi-data-harvest-20100519-vckv.html)


Google data gathering was not a crime: NZealand
New Zealand police said Thursday that Google did not commit a criminal offence when it collected data from wireless networks for its "Street View" mapping service


Link..... (http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/google-data-gathering-was-not-a-crime-nzealand-20100902-14p5c.html)


Google ends WiFi collection after personal data captured - Australia

Google is halting the collection of WiFi network information for its controversial "Street View" mapping service after admitting it mistakenly gathered personal data sent over unsecured systems.


Link....... (http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/google-ends-wifi-collection-after-personal-data-captured-20100515-v5ar.html)

[Bullion_Bob]

Scroogle. Firefox even has a plugin.

use bing for pics.

[PatColo]

Scroogle. Firefox even has a plugin.

use bing for pics.


I'd added "scroogle SSL search" to my firefox search engine window, but a few months back all the searches were returning some message basically saying google had blocked them, sorry. I just checked it again and it appears to be returning results as before.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12506/

[Shami-Amourae]

I recommend leading two lives. Like right now I'm at school, but I'm talking through a proxy so I can get through filters. At the same time I'm logged in with my real life information to school websites. Proxy basically masks the activity you do through them and people can't tell where you're coming from.

There are many free proxy services, like the one I'm using now:
http://hidemyass.com

You can also use services like this to run Google and Google will not have a clue in hell who you are. Like in my browser without HideMyAss it will display my username, but behind the proxy shield I'm not signed in. There are limitations to proxies, and some wont let you post on forums, are slower, and have some other limitations but if you can learn to use them with sensitive information so you can appear as sheeple, you will have smooth sailing.

[Glass]

I'm getting to the point where I might have to default to Firefox. I did use it with a proxy for a long time but that proxy just seemed to die so I stopped using it. I also don't visit a lot of the same places these days so it's not such a big deal. I just started using ghostery which works much better on firefox than IE.

Firefox clearly just works better but I don't like the interface so much. Thanks for the info on the proxies.

[Bullion_Bob]

I'm getting to the point where I might have to default to Firefox. I did use it with a proxy for a long time but that proxy just seemed to die so I stopped using it. I also don't visit a lot of the same places these days so it's not such a big deal. I just started using ghostery which works much better on firefox than IE.

Firefox clearly just works better but I don't like the interface so much. Thanks for the info on the proxies.


Try the noia skin. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/72/ I haven't found one better.

Also ref control, and set it to block. It blocks the site you came from (aka referrer), so when you click on a link from this site, (for example) to another site, it protects this site's identity, and your browsing patterns as well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953/