Google can use your image in advertising - Aftonbladet

Clicked you also remove the warning bell plingade to when you logged into Gmail today?

Then you missed that Google can now use your account information for marketing purposes.

New Terms gives the company the right to resell and publish your name and likeness for advertising.

500 million little bells plingade this morning.

All Users of the e-mail service, Gmail or a Google account was informed that the terms changed.

Most pressed enough routinely remove the warning.

But the new terms are worth reading.

Now, Google is entitled to use your name, picture and other personal information that you have uploaded to your account for marketing purposes.

Reviews may be advertising

Information theft will only affect people who use or have ever used the Google sharing services.

reviewing a restaurant through Google search or comment on an article G+ company can now sell and use the information in advertising.

For Facebook users, this type of advertising not news.

You’ve probably noticed ads for companies your contacts ‘likes’ in your stream.

But this type of advertising is not appreciated by everyone – especially not when the conditions change over time.

– People expect that the information they share used for a purpose, the obvious. Therefore, people get angry when something you posted online used to something else. To them, it feels like a crime, a violation, says physician Deborah C. Peel, founder of Patient Privacy Rights Association to the New York Times.

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By following conditions, it is unclear how the information you’ve posted to the account may be sold and how advertising might look like.

Google yourself market conditions change as minor – and one you may find useful.

You can also choose which ones to get advertising.

– The trick for any company that uses this type of advertising is to avoid getting your clients to think what you do is wrong, to make them say, “I did not want anyone else to get that information,” says Zachary Reiss-Davis, an analyst at market research firm Forrester Research.

Google is of course familiar with people’s fear that information they post online to spread wildly.
Therefore, it is possible to turn off the advertising function.

Or as it says in the new conditions: “If you select the settings, your profile name and your profile picture does not appear in either the ad for your favorite bakery or in other ads.”