- Location
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Name
- Sue
Oh my. Talk about cans of worms.
*shuts up now*
*shuts up now*
Oh my. Talk about cans of worms.
*shuts up now*
Well, honestly, right back at you in terms of being generous. It's not a question of whether or not Google would sell the data - they do sell it. The advertising you tout is based on detailed tracking and is thus sold to advertisers.
We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners -- like publishers, advertisers or connected sites.
We also use personal information to help us develop, deliver, and improve our products, services, content, and advertising.
At times Apple may make certain personal information available to strategic partners that work with Apple to provide products and services, or that help Apple market to customers... Personal information will only be shared by Apple to provide or improve our products, services and advertising; it will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes.
The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product. We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" their products. This is our mission statement:
Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google's products. Our team's goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.
It's Facebook that freaks me out... Now THAT'S molestation of privacy...
Sent from another Galaxy
You have a fundamental misunderstanding about Google advertising. Google does not sell your personal data to advertisers. You can read Google's plain language privacy policy here: Privacy Policy – Policies & Principles – Google
Note the section on "Transparency and Choice". Apple has nothing like that. But don't take my word for it. Apple's privacy policy is here: Apple - Apple Customer Privacy Policy
The real bottom line is that those privacy policies say very similar things. Apple is in the advertising business, just like Google. They are using your information to show you ads in a way that makes them money, just like Google.
For a way in which they differ, see DataLiberation.org.
Pretty much the opposite of Apple's lock-you-in approach.
My view is that you are shockingly naive about their intent.
The thing is, ChromeOS *is* a Linux distro IIRC. It shouldnt be too difficult to install the Linux of choice, if the hardware allows it. (Linux of various kinds being a bit picky about what they will work with).
Does Chromebook have a USB port? If so, there's the install possibility.
Will Damn Small Linux run on Chromebook?
DSL information