Headlines: Data Industry
Your face, your name and your comments. Basically anything you post on the array of Google services may well appear in Google searches and even across the 2,000,000 site Google ad network starting in November. Unless of course you opt out. This is not difficult and may be performed through the Google Terms of Service Update just posted. The update follows on the heels of Facebook's similar move. Each claims this is a "minor" change to existing policy aimed at providing relevance, but privacy advocates assert that it stretches the intent of the user's personal content, treating it more like intellectual property.