Google chief: Only miscreants worry about net privacy • The Regi. High performance access to file storage If you're concerned about Google retaining your personal data, then you must be doing something you shouldn't be doing. At least that's the word from Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," Schmidt tells CNBC, sparking howls of incredulity from the likes of Gawker. But the bigger news may be that Schmidt has actually admitted there are cases where the search giant is forced to release your personal data. "If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines - including Google - do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.
" There's also the possibility of subpoenas. And hacks. Gawker highlights the irony of Schmidt's typically haughty proclamations. Arvind Narayanan -- Post-doctoral researcher, Stanford Universit. Early Access Release Channels (Chromium Developer Documentation. Chrome supports a number of different release channels. We use these channels to slowly roll out updates to users, starting with our close to daily Canary channel builds, all the way up to our Stable channel releases that happen every 6 weeks roughly. Channels Windows Mac Android Linux Stable channel 32-bit Ubuntu/Debian 32-bit Fedora/OpenSUSE64-bit Ubuntu/Debian64-bit Fedora/Red Hat/OpenSUSE How do I choose which channel to use?
The release channels for chrome range from the most stable and tested (Stable channel) to completely untested and likely least stable (Canary channel). What should I do before I change my channel? Back up your data! Before you switch, you should make a backup of your profile (bookmarks, most visited pages, history, cookies, etc). Make a copy of the User Data\Default directory (for example, copy it to 'Default Backup' in the same location). ~/.config/google-chrome/Default Enable anonymous usage statistics Reporting Dev channel and Canary build problems. Using your browser history to tell what's on yo. Mike On Ads » Blog Archive » Using your browser URL history to e.
Aza’s Thoughts » Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visit. One of the great things about the web is the relative ease with which one can set up a new service. In social bookmarking alone with have Del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Fark, Mister-Wong, Newsvine, Reddit, Technorati, Slashdot, and StumbleUpon, to name a few. That’s great for competition, and that’s great for users, but it’s not so good for bloggers and content creators. What are you to do if you want readers to promote your content? Kevin Rose, of Digg, put it succinctly: “Encourage your visitors to submit their favorite stories directly to Digg [with a Digg badge].” Not everyone uses Digg. You have to decide on which bookmarking site, if any, to dedicate your precious screen real-estate.
It’s a hard choice. On the other hand, if you take the bird-shot approach, it overloads your reader with branded badge after branded badge. Nobody seems to have solved the problem yet. There has to be a better way. Wrong. I know that you visit: . User.checkedSites() How does SocialHistory.js know? P.S. 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know. We’ve updated this guide with the new privacy settings just launched by Facebook. You can get the new Facebook privacy guide now.
Everyday I receive an email from somebody about how their account was hacked, how a friend tagged them in the photo and they want a way to avoid it, as well as a number of other complications related to their privacy on Facebook. Over the weekend one individual contacted me to let me know that he would be removing me as a friend from Facebook because he was “going to make a shift with my Facebook use – going to just mostly family stuff.” Perhaps he was tired of receiving my status updates or perhaps he didn’t want me to view photos from his personal life. 1.
I can’t tell you how many people are not aware of their friend lists. There are a few very important things to remember about friend lists: I’ll touch on each of the things listed above in more detail later. Using friend lists is also extremely useful for organizing your friends if you have a lot of them. Google must divulge YouTube log.
Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. The ruling comes as part of Google's legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement. Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called the ruling a "set-back to privacy rights". The viewing log, which will be handed to Viacom, contains the log-in ID of users, the computer IP address (online identifier) and video clip details. While the legal battle between the two firms is being contested in the US, it is thought the ruling will apply to YouTube users and their viewing habits everywhere.
Viacom, which owns MTV and Paramount Pictures, has alleged that YouTube is guilty of massive copyright infringement. The UK's Premier League association is also seeking class action status with Viacom on the issue, alleging YouTube, which was bought by Google in 2006, has been used to watch football highlights. Legal action 'Erroneous ruling' A fresh take on the browser. At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well!
As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we've now made the comic publicly available -- you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries. So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web. All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today's complex web applications much better. This is just the beginning -- Google Chrome is far from done.