paranoid ? or is Google tracking me - and you ?

No. Unless you actively opt out, Google tailors both ads and search results based on "recent" browsing history.

 

It's not paranoid if its true.

 

When they are doing their streetview vans they record the MAC address/SSID of any wireless networks detected.

This enables their software to better pinpoint your location if you are inside a building (eg with google maps).

You can stop your wireless router broadcasting such information to the world. It's hardly their fault that you forgot to do so. It's just like someone on a street corner yelling out "this is 2454 smith street".

Take responsibility for your network!

 

How do you people sleep at night?

 

that's why i use scroogle.org

 

I'd recommend to install ghostery on Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609

 

Dont worry, they dont care about you. You are another digit to them. (google)

And as far as the govt. tapping into your stuff, they dont care about the sloppy pornsites you go to. or the fat chick from high school you are talking to on facebook. Or the rabbit you are buying on amazon. lol,,lol,,

If you are really worried about getting tapped on by the govt. you aren't on the internt, those people dont come to forumns to talk about it.

EF

 

I always assume that Google and all the social networking sites are simply the public face of the National Security Agency, and act accordingly.

 

that is very smart way of looking at it

because it's true NSA taps it like you turn on TV

 

I don't care if the CIA and NSA snoop all they want as long as they stick to their objective of protecting the interests of the USA via intelligence. If somone's planning a major adverse event and they head it off, that's great.

But when they pawn that data off to the FBI who creates profiles on all of us and they share that with local law enforcement, I have a real problem with that.

If you sell your neighbor a dime bag of weed via a text message, and the cops show up and use that text claiming "Patriot Act" allowed them to intercept that data, that's wrong. The US Constitution is supposed to protect us from government yet the government willfully violates our rights.

They obtain information illegally which tells them what to look for legally. Notice in today's warrants they don't say what the probable cause is; they only attest that they have probable cause to believe. Pure corrupted violation of rights.