The pursuit of erotic entertainment and privacy (and anonymity) are happy bedfellows, so it’s not uncommon for me to do articles and posts here about porn and your privacy. Just published on my CBSi column Pulp Tech is a piece of news that’s gone unreported for the most part until tonight: Google’s new website Good To Know quietly launched yesterday. It’s directly related to our interests – those being our safety and personal responsibility about our data. You might want to check it out. Here’s a snip from Google steps up its privacy game, launches Good To Know:
(…) If you wonder what Google thinks it knows about you, and what you can do about it, you’ll want to give Good To Know a close look.
It was announced that the main Good To Know campaign will be an ad campaign in the UK in conjunction with the UK’s National Citizens Advice Bureau, yet the Good To Know site is aimed at all Google consumers worldwide.
Good To Know is an interesting thing for Google to do right now. Google has definitely had its share of privacy blunders, and ongoing issues about privacy and seemingly pathological issues around anonymity remain.
Still, no other company of Google’s girth is interested in drawing attention to itself around user data use and privacy.
And I think that’s part of why Google has done this: to set themselves apart. For instance, Apple doesn’t have a Chief Privacy Officer. It should. Every other company that makes widgets and clogs bandwidth these days has one so it’s no surprise to see Google step up its game – and it’s really quite shocking (conspicuous?) that companies like Apple are falling behind in this arena. (…read more, Pulp Tech)
Image: self-portrait.
I also got “male”. I changed it so that hopefully sufficient data will be collected to change what advertisers target to whom.