[119949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Williams)
Fri Dec 4 09:54:21 2009
In-Reply-To: <4B19145C.8060704@bennett.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 06:53:34 -0800
From: Bruce Williams <williams.bruce@gmail.com>
To: Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, ken@heavycomputing.ca
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
"We plan to share what we learn from this experimental rollout of Google
Public DNS with the broader web community and other DNS providers, to
improve the browsing experience for Internet users globally."
I wonder how the world managed to function before Google came along....
Bruce
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com> wrote=
:
> Bruce Williams wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Paul S. R. Chisholm<psrchisholm@gmail.com=
> <psrchisholm@gmail.com>wrote
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Ken Chase <math@sizone.org> <math@sizone=
.org> wrote:
>
>
> We all know that google is leveraging cross-referenceable information
>
>
> from all
>
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> of its services for its profit/advantage ...
>
> /kc
> --
> Ken Chase - ken@heavycomputing.ca - +1 416 897 6284 - Toronto CANADA
> Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151
>
>
> Front St. W.
>
> Ken, this was addressed in the announcement:
> http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html
>
> We built Google Public DNS to make the web faster and to retain as
> little information about usage as we could, while still being able to
> detect and fix problems. Google Public DNS does not permanently store
> personally identifiable information.
> http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq.html#accounthttp://code.googl=
e.com/speed/public-dns/faq.html#sharedhttp://code.google.com/speed/public-d=
ns/faq.html#info
>
> Is any of the information collected stored with my Google account?
> No.
> Does Google share the information it collects from the Google Public
> DNS service with anyone else?
> No.
> Is information about my queries to Google Public DNS shared with other
> Google properties, such as Search, Gmail, ads networks, etc.?
> No.
>
> Hope this helps. --PSRC
>
>
> And this will never change? Not even when you check the box for the late=
st
> update that says it changes some terms and here is the link,,,,,,,
>
> Bruce
>
>
> The Adsense tracking cookie was once an opt-in, but after Google acquire=
d
> that company and crushed the competition it became an opt-out, unbeknowns=
t
> to many consumers. This is the way these generally go. Google will be all
> sweetness and light until they've crushed OpenDNS, and when the competito=
r's
> out of the picture, they'll get down to the monetizing.
>
> --
> Richard Bennett
>
>
--=20
=93Discovering...discovering...we will never cease discovering...
and the end of all our discovering will be
to return to the place where we began
and to know it for the first time.=94
-T.S. Eliot
