Make sure that you have completed your web site on Weebly. You will be sharing these with me on Monday. You will have no time on Monday to work on this.
Next you are to research the new Google security settings and restrictions. They can have a great impact on your life. Determine how those changes will impact you and what they mean to your personal identity on the web. Make sure you review the web history that is being tracked by Google. Review the other histories that are being tracked. How long will Google keep the history?
Use this blog posting to answer the questions above. Make sure you are doing your own work. This topic will be on the final exam!
When finished work on KeyTrain. This will be your last chance.
3-9-12 Garrett Magrum
ReplyDeleteGoogle is developing a “sandbox” to help with the security settings which will help them catch the hackers and viruses easier and more effectively. A sandbox is security mechanism used to run an application in a restricted environment. If an attacker is able to get into the browser in a way that lets him run a code on the machine, the sandbox would help prevent this code from causing damage to the system. The sandbox would also help prevent this from modifying and even reading files or any information on the system. This new technology can better protect us and even make us feel more secure on the web. Google is tracking everyone’s history and they will forever, they will keep all of this information forever as well.
Joey Bandi
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Google makes my life a lot easier when it comes to searching for things on the web. Their new policies and security setting will help me greatly when it comes to searching for the things that I wish to find. With their new policies they track what they’re doing, not to show anyone but just to see what we are searching for and how we react to what we found. Now with the new policies, this search engine will make it so, depending on the kind of user you are, you are able to find results specific to whether you have an account on the website or if you you’re just a regular user on the search engine. Google will keep track of our history and cookies that we use, and again its not to show anyone. You must always remember too, that Google allows you to edit what information and what information isn’t shared with other people, all it takes is a couple of clicks and you set almost your own privacy policy that you can edit any time you wish to. With the new features you can even pause the information that is logged. All you have to do is click a simple resume button and it will keep track of your history again. Or you can click a tab that allows you to delete history if you wish. This will greatly improve our searching experience and when they have received all the information they need, they will delete the history or at least let us delete it when we wish to. As for my personal identity on the web, Google will help to show what I like to search for and what I am capable of finding and greatly improve upon my personality by helping me to find the information that is the most useful to me. Google will only share information with administrators and other web owners if we give consent to do so. Also Google will delete the cookies upon request and if you wish, you are able to make it so you do not receive any cookies or your history is deleted right away. Overall, Google will help me greatly and impact my life a large amount since I use it almost every day. Im sure they will continue to improve upon it and help make my searched results more precise and accurate and will never try to violate my privacy rights.
Some of Google's security and restrictions are used to track what the users are doing. with the new policies, this search engine will make it so, depending on the kind of user you are, you are able to find results specific. Google will keep track of our history and cookies that we use, and it not to show anyone. Google allows you to edit what information and what information isn’t shared with other people, all it takes is a couple of clicks and you set almost your own privacy policy that you can edit any time you wish to. With the new features you can even pause the information that is logged. All you have to do is click a simple resume button and it will keep track of your history again. Or you can click a tab that allows you to delete history if you wish. This will greatly improve our searching experience and when they have received all the information they need, they will delete the history or at least let us delete it. With these new rules Google will be more precise and allow it to be more personal according to the user. These rules will also keep your information more private.
ReplyDeleteGoogle will record your search history and use it to recommend advertisements and videos. This will allow Google to know what you search for. It will also alert you if you misspell the name of someone you have communicated with on Gmail. This will allow them to search your contacts. They can now search your history in YouTube, as well as other Google-operated services. Search history will be made anonymous after a year and a half.
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ReplyDeleteGloria Chun- March 9th, 2012
ReplyDeleteThe new Google security settings and restrictions allow Google to dig deeper into its over 1 billion users’ lives. Google Inc. is combining more than 60 different privacy policies into a master policy to connect the dots between its different services like Google Docs, YouTube, Gmail, etc. The company, as a result, will be able to deliver all kinds of new levels of personalization such as location-based schedule reminders and better targeted ads. By doing this, users can also be alerted if a friend’s name is misspelled in a Google Doc, whose name is also a contact in their Gmail account and their most searched requests in the search engine and lead to suggested videos in their YouTube account. Also, their web history has been changed so that it is on every time the user is logged on and doing some action. It can only be turned off manually and with this tool, Google can track every user at any time.
Although there are plenty of pros that come with the new policy, there are also some cons said about it. Most people believe it makes it easier for strangers to find out identifying information more quickly and easily. Also, when added to Google’s database, users feel as though it violates protection laws, especially users in Europe.
Google can have a great impact on my life. Already, I use the search engine, Blogger, and YouTube daily and use other resources like Google Docs. The changes will also impact me. With all of these new personalization things, my accounts will be tracked and history will be monitored. I may turn off the web history and other tracking tools on the Google-run sites, but other than that, not much will change how I use the sites. These changes seem to mean a lot to my personal identity on the web. Many are saying that identifying information can be leaked, but as long as I keep track of the settings, I believe I will be fine. These settings and policies can able me to find trend in my searches and easily find things I’ve liked in the past.
The web history that is being tracked by Google is great and maybe a waste of space. Of the over 1 billion users today, these new settings allow Google to dig deeper, but to also put more ads out on their related site. No one knows for sure how long Google will keep the history, but some believe it is here to stay. Google is held up by advertisements and this allows more ads to be put up, so unless Google Inc. comes up with something better for them, these new setting and restrictions are here to stay.
Grant Gose
ReplyDeleteMarch 9, 2012
Google is working to develop a policy that is consistent across all sixty of their products. This new policy will work to better collect Google as a company and it's users. However, in order for this to work in its intended manner people must be willing to give information to their servers. The information that users will be subjecting to Google are information such as the information you supplied to Google when registering for your account, information from the use of Google's services, as well as Device Information, Log and Location Information, Application Numbers, Local Storage, as well as Cookies and other anonymous identifiers. These new policies allow users to change much of the information that the company's servers see, but this comes at a premium...users often will have to sacrifice the usability of services they use on a daily basis. This new policy puts my identity at a higher risk of being stolen when I surf the net, but I feel that I am vigilant in protecting my online presence.
From the looks of it, Google has come out with some new security type settings. This, I guess, are some new ways to protect your online information. Such as important things you may do over e-mail, or electronically at all. Google now has very nice privacy settings for any accounts you may have with them. Google itself is a very, very, useful site, and the more information you can give them, the more they can direct things that may interest you, to you. So, the more they can help you, the more they would need to know. But like anything, there are dangers that come along with that, the more you put out on the web, the more that could be potentially stolen and used without you even knowing. And that is where their privacy settings come in, they are there to protect you and your information so you can be safe about what you do online, but still get done what you need to do. Google will keep your information for a few days, no set time or date. Eventfully, they say it will be gone, deleted to never be found again, but that isn’t always the case. No one really knows where the information goes, so you have to hope! They say, once deleted, eventfully, it will be gone ‘forever’. But, it can still be recovered?
ReplyDelete-Adrienne Gotha
Google has a new privacy, they call this sandbox. This program is within the servers and if someone tries to hack or put in a virus sandbox will do something to it that will protect most of the software. Also Google is making users to it, use two passwords for their accounts. this is suppose to help with hacking. Google records every site you have ever visited on every day. No one knows for certain, but they might record all the history that everyone has had forever.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the research I have found, Google is going to be combining information about their users from other sites the person would be a member of, to get more information about them outside of Google. To what I am researching about Google is being pretty deceiving because they are going to eliminate over 60 privacy policy’s and make it one. They are trying to get into our business of what we look at online and I don’t think that is fair to us. Many people are saying to not sign in to Google. Or just not use Google at all. There is a fast and easy way to delete your history so they cannot use your information with someone else. They will be getting information about people like their religion, gender, age, D.O.B.. They are going to be using this information that we search and our own personal information for ads and other websites for people to view, they will be keeping history for 6 months.
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