Cash for your cache: Google’s new program pays users for the right to snoop
February 10, 2012
A new voluntary privacy policy allows data about you from all of Google’s services to coalesce, Mother Board reports.
Called Screenwise, Google explains it like this:
“As a panelist, you’ll add a browser extension that will share with Google the sites you visit and how you use them. What we learn from you, and others like you, will help us improve Google products and services and make a better online experience for everyone. What’s in it for you? Up to $25 in gift cards.”
How much are we comfortable with our machines knowing about us? How much is our privacy really worth? Are we all on the verge of making our own information-age Faustian bargains?
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Comments (5)
by cache-ching
We heard you like cash so we put cash in your cache so you can cash in while you’re cacheing.
by unclefishbits
you made me happy during a dark moment. you win sir you win. =)
by codesimian
Google wants to pay people to allow from Google what they already allow from government, the complete spying on everything they do on the Internet.
by {i}Pan~
It’s like a Nielsen box, only they pay you peanuts to do it?
by Khannea Suntzu
Stu-pid