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Organization “Inside Google” Runs Ads About Google CEO’s Big Brother-Like Attitude

September 3, 2010 by  
Filed under Blogging, Marketing Solutions, Privacy

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Most parents understand that the Internet is NOT their friend. Companies like Google are making billions by tracking everything you do online… and then selling that information to the highest bidder. Worse, they are tracking everything your children are doing as well… up to and including using the GPS in their cell phones to track their movements.

Fortunately, the public is FINALLY waking up — and fighting back. The organization “Inside Google” is now running ads on the Times Square Jumbotron lampooning Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s famous comment that, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” Schmidt could have worked for the East German Stasi with that attitude. Between corporate sleazebags like Schmidt and Big Brother totalitarians in the U.S. government, Americans will soon have their every movement watched, online and off.

On a more practical level, Inside Google offers a number of privacy tools on its website that can help you get started taking back your life from corporate totalitarians like Schmidt. Go to…

http://insidegoogle.com/takeaction/privacy-toolbox/

It’s not just a matter of disabling “cookies.” Hundreds, even thousands of websites –especially those that use Flash Video — place tracking programs on your computer that monitor everything you do. These tracking programs — known as LSOs or Local Shared Objects — remain in place even when you delete your cookies.

To get rid of LSOs, you can add a special plugin to your Firefox browser. You can get this plugin, Better Privacy, by clicking here

More later.

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