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Google’s Social Circle & Social Search May Not Violate Any Privacy Laws But It Gives Me The Creeps

March 30, 2010
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Google’s Social Circle & Social Search May Not Violate Any Privacy Laws But It Gives Me The Creeps

Yesterday I noticed something new in my google search Results from people in your social circle for google social search. It looked like this When I clicked on the link that said Results from people in your social circle for google social search it took me to a page that was just content from my Social Circle. I was a little disturbed by this. First I do not want search results from my Social Circle, whatever that means, I want it from everybody. Secondly, where are they getting this information? How did Google know who is in my Social Circle? So like a good little librarian I started digging. I went back to the page initial page and clicked on the link for My social circle. This took me too a page with a list of names that make up my Social Circle . There were a LOT of names on that list.  But how did they get there? There doesn’t seem to be a way to simply add or remove a person either. Google seems to know everywhere I’m connected to these people. Even places I didn’t know or remember I was connected with them. Frankly I’m creeped out. I do

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