{"id":130230,"date":"2009-12-12T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196788127833928948.post-6889961220465985940"},"modified":"2009-12-12T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T21:02:00","slug":"privacy-ignorance-was-eric-schmidt-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/130230","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Ignorance – Was Eric Schmidt thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Schmidt said in a CNBC<\/span> special<\/a> recently that \u201cIf you have something that you don\u2019t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn<\/span>\u2019t be doing it in the first place!\u201d<\/p>\n

And yet the reaction to this flagrant ignorance of basic privacy is met with mixed reactions. Some are criticizing, others are agreeing. Garett<\/span> Rogers at ZDnet<\/span> is even brown-nosing at Google’s<\/span> CEO for some reason with a statement I couldn’t agree with him more<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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It would have been easy to just start ranting about the generic ignorance of Eric Schmidt for anything private. But i wanted to see what will the google engine do with something that I don’t want anyone to know, and yet i could’t<\/span> prevent it from happening – ILLNESS<\/p>\n

<\/span>I created a series of e-mails which i exchanged between two gmail<\/span> accounts. <\/span>It took 3 e-mails for gmail<\/span> to suddenly start offering me anti-allergy bracelets, and refer me to doctors in their adsense<\/span>. Now, google engines know that I have an allergy. <\/span>Here are the transcripts – word for word of those e-mails
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I appologize<\/span> for not being on time, but i had to visit a doctor
Apparently, i have developed some form of allergy. I will need to be treated with anti-allergy drugs for some time.<\/p>\n

They are still investigating which medicine is the best<\/p>\n

See you around
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Bozidar<\/span>
I am very sorry about your situation. I have had some rash issues myself some time ago, and I got prescribed Singulair<\/span> and Alavert<\/span>. Maybe you should mention those to your doctor as possibilities<\/p>\n

Be safe
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Alavert<\/span> is for allergies. So i’ll<\/span> be mentioning it to my doctor<\/p>\n

Thanks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All it takes is 3 very short texts for google engines know that you are ill. And those may be e-mails you exchanged with your physician. It is quite obvious that the automated engines use this information – i got relevant commercials.<\/p>\n

So I would ask Mr Schmidt:<\/p>\n