I'm an avid user of Gmail and other Google services, but I'm increasingly uncomfortable keeping my entire email history on someone else's servers. Can I keep a week's worth of messages on the server and encrypt everything else? What are some other Gmail privacy compromises?
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posted by ecmendenhall
on Apr 17, 2013 -
7 answers
I'm a female in the US, about to get married for the second time and taking my husband's name. Help me manage how my new name appears online before it starts to happen.
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 2, 2013 -
3 answers
My department is being mandated to start using Google+ and some other Google apps. Please help me think through the security and privacy implications of what I am afraid might become a real mess.
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posted by jbickers
on Feb 4, 2013 -
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According to that new Google privacy policy, are they allowed to sell AdSense ads to advertisers based on what they have read in your Gmail?
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posted by shipbreaker
on Mar 7, 2012 -
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Gmail just asked me if I wanted to import all my mail from another email account of mine. How can I figure out if I've ever told Gmail I own this account? Or is this just google being creepy as hell again?
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posted by Diablevert
on Feb 28, 2012 -
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What effect do my Ask MetaFilter searches on behalf of others have on data miners' sense of who I am?
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posted by MonkeyToes
on Feb 26, 2012 -
9 answers
What are the benefits of Google's Search History?
As I understand it, Google is changing it's privacy policy so that my personal search history (which was previously kept separate), will now be tied to my Google profile for other Google products (Google+, Gmail, Google Voice, etc.). In other words - my search history will now be associated with
my actual name and
personal phone number.
So - I'm thinking about removing my search history, but I don't know what I'd be giving up. According to Google - it uses my history to "personalize" my search results. But - does this really make a difference?
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posted by stuehler
on Feb 23, 2012 -
12 answers
Do you think it's creepy when you find out someone has Googled you? Semi-related to previous questions about Googling dates, but my date isn't the Googler.
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 8, 2012 -
46 answers
How to maintain online privacy and NOT be searchable as someone else's friend social networking friend?
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posted by mintchip
on Oct 8, 2011 -
9 answers
Can I have my Gmail (Google App account) logged in without Google signing me to every service and tracking my every move?
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posted by nam3d
on Aug 24, 2011 -
5 answers
Say I use my Google account to identify myself when posting on Blogger. Can the person running the blog see my e-mail address or other details?
posted by Yakuman
on May 22, 2011 -
2 answers
How can I download my Google web history in a way that maximizes the data's usability?
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posted by Popcorn
on Jul 22, 2010 -
5 answers
I run a nonprofit education center in the Philippines, and a few of our students come from a background of the sex industry. One of my students used to work online for a live webcam sex site, where members pay by the minute. Well, it recently came to his (and my) attention that one of the members who paid for a private chat with him used screen recording software and then posted the video to a blogspot.com site. What can be done to get it removed? If this got out to too many people, his professional future could be completely destroyed.
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 31, 2010 -
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When I clicked on
this article from this
FPP, I got 3 Google text ads, 2 of which are directed at personal information about me. So I signed out of Google, cleared my cache, history, cookies, etc., and clicked on the link again. Same ads. How?
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posted by desjardins
on Sep 4, 2009 -
27 answers
How does google image search find untagged people in a Picasa web album? How can I make it stop?
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posted by emmykm
on Apr 1, 2009 -
11 answers
Many moons ago, when I was naive and young, I left an embarrassing trail of incriminating Usenet posts. I had Google remove them from their archive but, forward a few years, they're back! How can I get them deleted for good?
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 18, 2009 -
15 answers
Why is my Wordpress blog showing up in Google when I have specifically chosen the option to keep it private from search engines?
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posted by Drohan
on Jun 21, 2008 -
9 answers
How can I prevent Google from tracking my visits to web sites that use their services (Google Analytics, AdWords, etc.)?
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posted by Ø
on Jan 24, 2008 -
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Whenever I'm actively browsing the web, I like to keep a tab open to my Gmail account. But I don't particularly want my Google searches to be linked to the Gmail account. Is there any way to prevent this?
posted by box
on Aug 11, 2006 -
15 answers
Does it bother you to click on Yahoo! links and unexpectedly see your Yahoo! name on the screen because you prefer to store your Yahoo (enough with the exclamation point already) password in a cookie?
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posted by mono blanco
on Dec 18, 2005 -
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