Consider the two major brands - Microsoft and Google. Both have their own Operating Systems (MS OSes and Android), Search Engines (Bing and Google), and Email (live.com and gmail.com). Add to these, social websites like G+.
Which of these two brands you consider as a bigger threat to privacy?
Ha ha, to me that’s like asking—“Are you more dead if someone fatally shoots you or fatally strangles you?”
So, both are equally bad in protecting User privacy? But MS has been around for more than 3 decades. The privacy concern has not been so high as in recent years. Is it because of the Internet?
Probably Google if only because it is completely widespread whereas Microsoft don’t have the same success that Google enjoys.
E-mail wise, probably hotmail can be compared to gmail but bing doesn’t have the same market share and same happens with other services.
That may change in the near future though.
Both are king of the internet and software world. It’s so difficult to say that which is better. But i goes with goolge.
GOOGLE is a biggest threat to privacy as G+ has landed and all the info of peoples has saved in google’s servers.
FaceBook is a bigger threat to privacy than Microsoft, Google and the next thousand most popular social media services put together.
Facebook is a serious threat to privacy only if you’re in the habit of posting personal information about yourself publicly and don’t use the privacy settings. If you avoid posting personal details about yourself, you should be fine.
There are some privacy issues with Facebook, but most of them revolve around bad Apps that request way too many unnecessary permissions. That is something that Facebook has to work on IMO.
Facebook…
But even if you do use this week’s privacy settings Facebook will make all of it public next week and introduce new even harder to find privacy settings to take its place. There are only two certainties in this world - taxes and Facebook making all your private details public (they will eventually cure death which used to be considered the other certainty before Facebook came along).
Facebook is without a doubt the biggest threat to privacy. Make sure your Facebook password is very secure because my account once got hacked. The last thing you want is for some stranger to get your photos, or to try and steal your identity.
Depends what you mean by threat to privacy. Use all of the services as if they weren’t designed for privacy, and you’ll be fine.
If I wanted to do illegal searches, send spam emails or show pictures of myself posing in dental floss underwear, I wouldn’t be using the most mass-used services to do so. That’s just plain common sense.
If you consider them a threat, don’t use them. But I don’t consider personally-aimed advertisements a breach of privacy. There are clear terms and conditions of services that are always subject to change and, if you really ARE concerned for privacy, you’d keep up with their privacy updates and adjust your usage accordingly. Or if you’re just out to complain, ignore the published changes and blow some steam on a forum after realising that a small part of an overridingly beneficial and FREE service has a tiny chance of possibly affecting you in a slightly negative way one day. Because obviously, everyone wants to know what you are doing on the internet…
Yes, that’s exactly how I feel. I don’t see why people would care about any of my data because in the grand scheme of things (and that’s key here) I’m a big fat nobody and completely uninteresting. I’m 99,999% sure that nobody (including google and other large corporations) cares about what I send in my email and to whom. Sure, they have mining algorithms running over my email, that’s fine. As long as those algorithms are not affecting my email in any other way or for any other purpose than to show me advertisements, I’m completely fine with that. Heck, if I ran a service similar to gmail, I’d probably do the same; it just makes sense.
To further stress this point, I (and I have talked with others who are in the same situation and feel the same way) run a web server that hosts e-mail for several of my clients. I have root access to the server, so I could look at all their email. I don’t. And not only because I feel it’s unethical or anything, but also because I really don’t care.
Besides:
I would consider Google as a biggest threat to privacy because my gmail account got hacked recently
i would say both! I Use Google for my mails, analytic s to earn from my site, Checkout to make payments, G+ to interact with friends, Adwords for PPC… so I think Google has all of my personally information available with them. I use my computer to do all these things, which uses Microsoft operating system. So I think they both have equal amount of intrusion in my personal information’s. Whether I cry or not but the fact remains that I cannot manage with out these two!
