Google Ads Will Feature You

[bananas]

Source: Information Week

A change in the company's terms of service will put your name and picture in ads shown to your friends.

Google on Friday altered its Terms of Service to allow it to include users' Google+ profile names and pictures in Google products, including advertisements, reviews and other commercial offerings.

Google grants itself permission to do this by default, but allows users to opt-out of appearing in ads through its new Shared Endorsements in Ads setting. The company attempts to discourage users from revoking the permission it assumed they would grant by displaying this message when the checkbox is deselected: "Are you sure? When you disable this setting, your friends will be less likely to benefit from your recommendations."

The opt-out option is limited in scope, however: Google will still employ users' names and photos in Shared Endorsements related to reviews, +1, follows and other promotional services. You were expecting something for nothing?

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Read more: http://www.informationweek.com/security/privacy/google-ads-will-feature-you/240162564

[Kaleva]

1. All my pics are of the waist down variety. Does Google really want to travel that road?

[penultimate]

2. So you take pictures of your shoes a lot too?

I thought I was the only one.

[Heather MC]

3. hmmm can I travel that road I just want too look

[Kaleva]

8. You may see me in the latest Oscar Mayer ads on Google!

[Heather MC]

13. Italian or Polish

Sausage?



Dang now I am hungry

[Fumesucker]

27. Is that a salami in your pocket?

Or are you just surfing the net again?

[Xipe Totec]

4. In Soviet Russia, Google sells YOU! nt

[Kelvin Mace]

5. No way this can backfire

[AsahinaKimi]

6. I think this might be a good time to opt out

of Google +

[Paper Roses]

14. Tell us where you go, I might follow. n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

18. Already on Twitter

@AsahinaKimiko, I closed my facebook account long ago.

[davepdx]

17. At least you can opt out

You can opt out here (link in the OP article):
https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements?hl=en

I dislike the opt in by default but at least you are given the opportunity to opt out.

[AsahinaKimi]

19. Thanks I found that..

And opted out! Empowerment! Yay!

[Auggie]

7. Glad I never bothered to register

[petronius]

9. That sounds sort of creepy

I'm glad I have no idea what Google+ is. (At least I didn't, before I just googled it... )

[jsr]

10. WTF

[treestar]

11. Interesting that they think that might work as well as

using good looking models.

[freshwest]

12. Help! Is just doing google image search or other searches making one a 'user.' I don't have any pics

of myself posted online anywhere, but do have some in my email. Can they post those?

[Posteritatis]

16. Not in that case

When they're talking about pictures they mean specifically stuff that's posted rather than, say, emailed back and forth between individuals. An example would be a G+ user who had public photo albums. The contents of, say, your email inbox would still be sacrosanct.

Simply using Google for searching wouldn't do anything to you either. It applies to people who actually have a Google account.

[freshwest]

22. Thanks. I had to get a google account to access my youtube account. The message came in yahoo email.

For some reason, it ruined both yahoo and youtube accounts and they're unusable now. The yahoo account has pictures and data going back a decade. And now I can't get into either of them. But you've relieved my mind on that matter, I think.

[Posteritatis]

15. They just notified me several weeks in advance about opt-out options. Problem solved! (nt)

[Paper Roses]

20. Help me understand this:

I use Google as my home page. Don't remember registering for anything. Saw the banner at the top of my home page but did not pay attention, figured it was some kind of an ad.

Should I follow thru with this opt-out of which you speak? I don't have a picture anywhere that I can think of and certainly do not endorse anything.

[yuiyoshida]

21. I would love to see them use mine...

It looks like this:

[WeekendWarrior]

23. The Title is Misleading

Google has sent all Google+ members an email informing us that our likeness, etc., MAY be used, but the email also includes a link for us to opt out immediately if we don't want to be part of it.

This is just more hysteria over nothing.

[aquart]

25. So it's a warning NEVER to click on Google Plus for any reason.

Should bring 'em in in droves.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

26. The title is not misleading. Google Ads WILL Feature You

unless you opt out.

[greyl]

29. False. It's an opt-in system.

Users need to click the checkbox for "Based upon my activity, Google may show my name and profile photo in shared endorsements that appear in ads." to give permission.

It's unchecked here, on 2 accounts.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

30. Try to keep up.

New rules:

Google grants itself permission to do this by default, but allows users to opt-out of appearing in ads through its new Shared Endorsements in Ads setting.

[greyl]

31. Good lord man, please read for comprehension.

What you're quoting is false, like the headline is misleading.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

32. So, I guess you know more than the Washington Post?

Google said the launch of “shared endorsements” will help consumers make better choices. “We want to give you — and your friends and connections — the most useful information. Recommendations from people you know can really help,” the company wrote in its announcement.

It added that users can opt out of the ads and that it will automatically exclude anyone under the age of 18.

Washington Post

[Turborama]

33. I posted a heads up in GD on how to opt out and some users had previously done so prior to this

Read all about it here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023833812

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

34. I already know how, but good on you. More info never hurts.

[Turborama]

37. Sorry, I meant to reply to greyl, who seems to be arguing it's an 'opt in' thing, which it isn't.

ETA Unless one has opted out previously, which not everyone has (as can be seen in my above link). Whatever the case, opting out has to have happened previously or done now to get out of it.

Simply put, the only way it could be 'opt in' is if you actually 'opt back in'.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

38. Thank you! Love how once proven wrong greyl doesn't have the decency to

admit his mistake.

[joshcryer]

36. It's actually opt-out. But Google warns you on all their sites.

Anyone not seeing the warning is blind.

[WeekendWarrior]

41. Whether it's Opt in or out is not the point

The point is that Google fairly warns anyone who might be involved and gives them a clear and unambiguous path to opting out that takes a simple click.

The title makes it sound as if you don't have a choice. Which is misleading.

[aquart]

24. Aww, Google thinks it owns me.

Of course, if anyone asks me, I'll them I wouldn't touch the product with a ten-foot pole.

[askeptic]

28. Why pay actors when TOS allows them to get it free?

You can bet this will be in TOS for for new Google+ people and there will be no opt out option. Just sayin' - be aware.

[Egnever]

35. Not likely

Google has always made it easy to remove your data.

[DeSwiss]

39. Screw Google.

- They were projecting all along.....

[center][/center]

Try DuckDuckGo

[Egnever]

40. Not me

They make it pretty easy to opt out https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements?hl=en