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Do-Not-Track Talks Could Be Running Off the Rails

Surprisingly, only 11.4 percent of the estimated 450 million people worldwide who use the Firefox desktop browser had activated the Do Not Track setting.

The Final Round of Negotiations Over a Consumer Privacy Mechanism – (via NYTimes.com).

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Online tracking debate heats up after flaws exposed

An informative and amusing look at online tracking (short video of 3m41s).

Online tracking debate heats up after flaws exposed (via BBC News)

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Google announces a new tool, Account Activity, showing you (a peak of) what it knows about you

 

Google has introduced a new tool called Account Activity.  It allows you to subscribe to a monthly report that summarizes what’s been going on in your online Google accounts. Depending on the Google services you use, the reports could include information about the number of emails, the contacts you most interact with, and the [...]

Study Shows that Users are Anxious about Search Engines Collecting Personal Information

 

As reported by EPIC.org, a Pew study found that users of search engines were pleased with the quality of search results but opposed targeted advertising and search results, and were generally anxious about the collection of personal information by search engines. Specifically, 73 percent of those surveyed were opposed to search engines tracking their searches, and [...]

Prevent Google from combining your web history data with its other products

 

How to Remove Your YouTube Viewing and Search History Before Googles New Privacy Policy Takes Effect (via Electronic Frontier Foundation)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-youtube-viewing-and-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy 

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