Main Area and Open Discussion > Living Room

Google to Sell User Profiles, Photos in Ads

(1/4) > >>

Renegade:
Google has joined Facebook and Instagram.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/10/11/google-to-sell-user-profiles-and-photos-in-ads/?mod=e2fb

Google updated its terms of service Friday to say that beginning Nov. 11 it has the right to sell adult users’  profile names, photos and comments in reviews and advertising.

Here’s how its “shared endorsements” would work: If you rate a product on Google Play or give a product a +1 (the Google equivalent to Facebook’s “like”), those actions can be shown to your friends and connections. So if you gave a +1 to your favorite fashion retailer, your mom might see an advertisement from that retailer that says you like it. Google is drawing that information from your Google+ account (and you might have one, even if you don’t use it).
--- End quote ---

Enjoy!

rgdot:
Love this



</sarcasm>

wraith808:
You can opt out.. though there's no real 'link' to the opt-out page.

Article
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/google-will-soon-put-your-face-name-and-content-in-its-ads/

Opt-out
https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements

Deozaan:
I didn't have to opt out. The box was unchecked by default for me. Maybe it's opt-in? (One could wish...)

wraith808:
Users are opted in to Google's new scheme by default. In the past, Google gave itself permission to use users’ +1s alongside advertisements unless the user specifically opted out. The new “shared endorsements” are an extension of that setting, wherein Google gives itself permission to take even more of a user’s content and place it alongside ads.

--- End quote ---

Had you opted out of that already?

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page