{"id":6635,"date":"2012-02-05T17:31:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T17:31:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T17:31:12","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6635","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: &#8220;Beware of privacy policies: Time to clean up your digital footprint&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/beware-of-privacy-policies-time-to-hide-your-digital-footprint\/2012\/01\/31\/gIQADI7PnQ_story.html\">Beware of privacy policies: Time to clean up your digital footprint<\/a> by Melissa Bell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, Google tracked the Web sites I visited and, like most technology companies, tried to guess who I was based on the places I visited. Its goal: to target advertising to me. The result? The search engine thought I was a 70-year-old man based in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a man, not 70 and haven\u2019t had the privilege of visiting the Peach State. Google\u2019s guessing game might improve, though, thanks to a change in its privacy policies launched Wednesday. Now all the company\u2019s products are governed by one policy, which lets the company track what I write on Gmail and compare it to what I watch on YouTube \u2014 all to better direct ads to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why is facebook worth $75B? The information it has collected on 875M people.<\/p>\n<p>When will the government start datamining to target people? It already can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6635\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}