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by adrianlmm 4676 days ago
If Google really wants to help then it should stop tracking their users, stop spying on me and stop trying to force me to sing up to G+, they cannot give data to the NSA if they stop getting it as simple as that, but, all the NSA has to do is buy the information from Google, after all, they sell it.
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cloudwalking 4676 days ago
If you don't want to be tracked and you don't want to use Google+, stop using Google products.

Google does not sell data to anybody. They sell advertising slots.

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fallingup 4676 days ago
You're still tracked if you don't use Google products.
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adrianlmm 4676 days ago
Is not as easy to scape, they keep tracking you with cookies, with Google analitics and with whatever they can use it, they have all figured out.
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aniket_ray 4676 days ago
Employees at Google are not tracking you.

Programmatic algorithms on some Google properties are processing your data to show you the most relevant content (search, G+ posts, mail, news etc) and advertisements. There is a big difference between this "tracking" and the kind of snooping that spy organizations do.

By the way I'll be surprised if all spy organizations and not just NSA aren't trying their best to get more information on certain people from wherever they can.

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anxiousest 4676 days ago
Their business - like that of most tech companies - is built on data (so is every business to some degree) they can't forgo data, that is stupid. If the NSA is your main concern then it's government policy you want to be changed, not the engineering decisions of private companies. Also worth mentioning that unless you're speaking of telecom companies there is no profit motive to cooperating with government but mainly legal obligations.
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adrianlmm 4676 days ago
Their business is data, buy they have gone beyond that, they just don't want to know what I'd like to buy, they want to know were I live, my phone number, the places I visit, they want to know where I'm every single second of the day, screw that.
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anxiousest 4676 days ago
They're not forcing you. You can give them that or you might consider the benefits not worth it and you won't, it's not an NSA type issue.
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adrianlmm 4676 days ago
They are not forcing me yet they are still tracking me, with dirty tricks like this one:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-bowdon/why-has-google-been...

yeah, the are clever when is about getting your info.

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