May 2, 2012

Is Google Watching You?

1.    How does Google's business model use personal data?
Answer:

Google is firmly committed to the privacy of our advertisers and users. While Google does add a cookie to a user's computer when he/she clicks on an ad, this cookie expires in 30 days, and Google does not associate a user's search activity with his/her ad click history.

2.  What do you think are the major privacy concerns raised by Google's business model and applications?
Answer:

The most common concern of our privacy information as an individual that one who use Google account.

3. Do you think Google has taken adequate measures to protect its user's privacy? Explain your answer.
Answer:

Google must be adequate to protect its user to prevent from unwanted issues due to unsecured privacy.
“To certain degree information gathering can be ethical and very useful; however, Google has stepped over the boundary of ethics because of the amount of information they are gathering through their various products and their loose privacy policy that allows for third party exposure.  This behavior is unethical because it does not “most dutifully respect the rights of all affected”.


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