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Google has decided that your privacy is no longer their "number one priority" and reversed their long-standing policy towards anonymous online ad tracking and user names; the Google DoubleClick advertising database will now be combined with all other information Google has on users, such as from Gmail and all other accounts and logins.
excerpt of the new policy:
We may combine personal information from one service with information, including personal information, from other Google services -- for example to make it easier to share things with people you know. [...] Depending on your account settings, your activity on other sites and apps may be associated with your personal information in order to improve Google's services and the ads delivered by Google. [...]
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article source:
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @04:32AM
Our government is elected by a minority of a minority. There are more than 318 million people in the US. The 2008 presidential election had record voter turnout. Fewer than 70 million people, or 22% of people voted for Obama. And that was huge turnout for a US election. 4 million fewer people voted for him in 2012 and 2016 has undoubtedly been one of the most disenfranchising political years ever so we can expect voter turnout to keep plummeting. Anyhow, the point being that our government most certainly does not have most of the people on their side. The only reason they're in office is because it's all but impossible for real change in politics with first past the post. We end up "strategically" working against our own best interest like a mass scale prisoner's dilemma.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @06:25PM
Liberals are "strategically" voting against their own interests in this election to prevent an aspiring despot from throwing out the constitution entirely (at least the status quo, as bad as it is, gives us more time to try to fix things), but there is absolutely nothing strategic about poor people voting to shred social safety nets, to ensure they have no upward mobility or medical care, to give tax cuts to the rich, to ensure that their wages always stagnate and never increase, etcetc. Red states and counties are the poorest [politifact.com] in the country and receive the most in Federal assistance, yet they continue to vote to make things worse and worse for themselves, meanwhile the facts show that [huffingtonpost.com] increasing minimum wage and increasing taxes on the extremely wealthy correlate to healthy, robust economies and low unemployement, while the opposite, stagnating wages and lowering the wealthy's tax burden (pushing that burden onto the middle and lower classes and forcing them to pick up these moochers' tabs) correlates to weak, stagnant economies and high unemployment.