Google to merge user data across services; users can NOT opt out!
From the Associated Press: Google to merge user data across more services
From the article: “Google Inc. is overhauling the way it treats user data, linking information across its array of email, video and social-networking services so that information gathered in one place can be used in another.”
Honestly, I assume they’ve been doing that all along, frankly, my guess is they are just being honest about it now. And Andrioid telephone owners are really SOL, since Google will be able to track where they are, who their friends are, and everything inbetween!
You wonder why I remove all the Google applications from my Android tablets and turn off GPS and other location methods? If this doesn’t spur the creation or at least the fork of a truly open and free phone/tablet device operating system, one that is not giving every bit of your personal information to either the huge Apple or the mammoth Google, I will have lost my faith in the geeks of America, and know they have completely and totally drunk the corporate kool-aid.
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