Your privacy

So everything on the internet is getting pretty crazy these days.  MegaUpload just got screwed, luckily SOPA/PIPA didn't get passed (even though they are trying to sneak through similar bills), and Google just changed their privacy policies so they can track you everywhere you go on the internet.  Luckily President Obama is putting forth a bill to help the public retain some of their privacy.  Read what I just read at Google News and hopefully you can feel a little better about your internet use.

If there is a major theme in high-tech in this early part of 2012, it's on consumer data privacy, with a number of both good and bad developments. Google, Apple, Path and several other Silicon Valley companies have dominated headlines. We've seen Google's controversial privacy policy change proposal in January. We watched the drama around Apple's easy enabling of address book sharing for third-party apps like Path, Facebook and others unfold. Last week, we learned of Google's trickery of Apple Safari to enable online ad cookies to run in the Web browser for Macs, iPhones and iPads. But it hasn't been all bad news. On Feb. 22, President Barack Obama unveiled a consumer privacy bill of rights. On the same day, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others embraced the Do Not Track privacy feature proposed by the Federal Trade Commission. Those are positive steps in the evolution of online privacy. eWEEK details some of the happenings in this slide show.