A blog post by Jon Mitchell at the influential tech blog, ReadWriteWeb, titled “What Do Google Ads Know About You?” is essential reading for anyone in the class who is doing a topic on Google’s advertising business or on Google and privacy. You should read the post as well as the things that it links to:
- a recent blog post from the Official Google Blog titled “Increasing Transparency and Choice with Ads on Search and Gmail,” which includes an embedded video titled “Ad Preferences Manager” on YouTube
- the “Ads Preferences Manager” options in your Google Account
- an earlier blog post on ReadWriteWeb about Google’s transparency project titled “Government Requests for Google User Data Keep Rising”
