Tinfoil Hat on Evan Hoffman

More thoughts on Google's tracking abilities

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:34:22 +0000

It all comes down to the cookie.

The Wall Street Journal recently began a series of articles called What They Know, detailing the different pieces of data that online marketing companies have about people as they traverse the web. None of this is really new, especially not to me, since I work in that industry. But I was surprised at some of the data that was present in the cookies right in plaintext:

More thoughts on Google's tracking abilities

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:34:22 +0000

It all comes down to the cookie.

The sinister side of Google's Picasa face tagging

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:34:53 +0000

So, let me start by saying that I love Picasa, Google’s photo organization tool. It automatically finds new photos as you add them to your hard drive. It lets you crop pictures, remove red-eye, adjust colors and make a few other basic edits that cover probably 95% of what most people need to do when editing photos. It lets you select a few photos from your library and email them to anyone with just a couple of clicks. It also integrates with Google Earth and Google Maps to show you on a map where a particular photo was taken (for those unaware, GPS-enabled cameras, including many mobile phone cameras [e.g., iPhone] embed your GPS coordinates within the EXIF metadata of the photo, so any person, program or website with access to the image will know the location at which it was taken).

The sinister side of Google's Picasa face tagging

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:34:53 +0000