g.-mail account whatever comes before g. mail dot com so this information will still be on google servers tied to your. address but that's not as identifiable as far as our ongoing basis if you're logged into google they are going to be collecting this information but you can any time clear data that you don't want either on the ground you are braces or on a i did buy a basis. ok how about the do not track feature we know it's not out there yet right they just said recently that it's going they will comply with it but once do not track is available what's that going to do for us that's really going to affect what google collects and what other companies like facebook and yahoo collect when you're everywhere on the internet it turns out that when you see those facebook like buttons or the google plus one button a lot of sites that's actually putting let's call a third party cookie on your computer which can know what you're doing across web sites this do not track header what it's called is about making it so users can opt out

they always have little things in google plus and g mail that remind me they're updating their settings. i don't think the average user will notice any big difference. >> the internet companies that are in a position to profit from people's information are wanting to take more and more control over it. i'm suspicious and would like to opt out of it. >> reporter: you can essentially opt out of the new policy by manually deleting your google web history or by simply not signing into sites like g mail when searching on google. >> we as consumers have to fundamentally trust that people like google, microsoft, whoever it is have our best interest at heart and if you fundamentally do not trust them, then you shouldn't be using their services. it's as >>> as that. as-- it's as >>> as that. >>> a major bank is experimenting with a brand-new type of fee. back to laura evans with your fox 5 top five. >> new fees could be coming for bank of america customers. no. 5, the banking giant has been experimenting with new checking account fees in arizona, georgia and massachusetts. customers there pay si

reporter: in this video, google explains how the web giant is stream lining the privacy policy from g-mail to youtube to google plus to provide a more personalized experience. >> and this means if you signed in, we'll treat you as a single user. >> some of the concerns about google consolidating the privacies, what does goggle know about me now? and they can see my e-mails and what video i look at. google is about me and what is it going to do with that information? >> reporter: one thing they will do, customize advertising, allowing google to target ads to users based on their interest. the new policy is getting mixed reaction from users. >> and this is a fantastic job of notifying people when there are privacy updates and they have things in google plus and g-mail reminding me that they're updeath -- updating the settings. i don't think the average user will notice a difference. >> the internet companies that -- and some people's information are taking control of itself. i am suspicious and i would like to opt out. >> reporter: you can manually deleting your goggle web history or by simp

when you use g mail, they keep track of the material. they track it altogether and they're building a much more complete profile of us that helps someone to improve services or sell advertising or deliver ads to you based on what you put out there on the internet. >> when you think about google, you think about how it's open access to the world, to the universe for people who use it. you could type in mars and get something or type in monte carlo and get something, whatever it might be. it's in a business that's in a business to make money, and it's really ads and it's somewhat of a disconnect of what consumers think they're getting and what is really happening. >> you have this marketing that they're doing, like google brings the world together. and part of that is true. but on the other side of that, they are a business, and we're consumers. we're using all these google services for free, and that's expensive to maintain. who is paying for it? if it's not us, we're not their customers. we're their products. the customers are the advert

you don't want to sign an itunes contract every month. >> universities insist their students use g-mailhe students leave and still on g-mail forever, right? all of these systems it's becoming harder -- well, less obvious to live that sort of life outside -- >> it is harder because i think in a lot of respects, as you talked about, google has developed a set of tools that are just so easy to use and they are so available. so it actually is harder, you know? there's a lot of stuff that i was very concerned about this when this popped into the news. goodness knows that my older family members who are becoming more active online were extremely concerned about it, but at the end of the day, have i shut down my google account? no. i'm still on g-mail. >> the question is where do you go. siva, thanks to much for your time this morning. what do we know now we didn't know last week? my answers after this! le announ] this is lawn ranger -- eden prairie, minnesota. in here, the landscaping business grows with snow. to keep big winter jobs on track, at&t provided a mobile solution that lets everyon

doesn't change one bit with this new policy ok and so if i have a google account let's say i use g. mail as it can affect me more than a fax others just average internet users of somebody uses hotmail or something well if you're not using google service there's a different company that's collecting that information a lot of the other competitors to google have fairly similar policies of course if you do use google and you don't like this chain there are a lot of ways that you couldn't address it which include as you mentioned the google and tire ok so let's go through before we get to quitting google entirely because that seems like kind of a drastic step but i think that some people might not exactly become whether it be ready for you know there is a list of things that certain people have suggested that people can do for example clear hugel web history there's a way that you can do that online where i've been if you click your google web history does that mean that that only clears stuff password from here on out they still track it or you know what exactly do we get out of this if you

they are looking at g. mail. g. mail has actually been. read by try google in the sense that it deploys on automatic scanning technology that it scans the content of your email or presuming for spam and well fishing and actually it's usually used to target advertisements so the advertisements are targeted based on the content of your email you sent an email to someone. you know the dentist going to see ads for related products so you send an e-mail about that down to school reads your e-mail and you go to google search and you search. you know my neighborhood and i had for down a spot so. that's that's the difference now the ads are are no longer can textual they're based on a profile of you a profile of your behavior the way you use each google service so these searches you do or. might use not only might this not be you know it's the old. joke about you know somebody sitting at the office typing away and suddenly you know a porn screen pops up or something like that but you know if if somebody is talking about something a lot an e-mail o

the company will try to keep track of everything you do on g mail, youtubes and maps and then build as profile on you. that frightens many privacy watchdogs. they're calling it an invasion of privacy. >> if there are things you want to keep private about your life, those records are all in there. >> it's really were delivering the best service we can to users. we know that a consistent seamless experience will deliver the best value. >> google said users will have the ability to edit or delete search results and even log out of their accounts and use google services anonymously. >>> don't have the cash to spend on a brand-new car? we have tips to find a more fuel efficient car. consumer reports has a list of the most reliable ones -- toyota and on disa. in addition to asking the usual about mileage and the car's history, look for mismatched panels, doors and hoods. beware of flood damage, signs of mold, mildew, electrical problems. step on the gas and look for pings and knocks while accelerating. get a history vehicle report and look for things like odometer, fraud, past crash damage a

they've got g mail. they know who you're e-mailing.ve got phone services so th they might know who you're calling based on maps. they know what sort of locations you like. if if you have an android phone they might know who you are. all of that could be combined as they give you services. >> so why did google make these changes, john? is this policy legal? >> well, on why they did it, jim, first of all, they like simplicity. so this is one policy. from a business standpoint it lets them combine more data and crunch that data to know more about you which helps from a bu business standpoint. and also to provide services a little bit more smoothly which is the pitch they make to consumers for why it's good. on whether it's legal, it is being challenged in other countries and even lawmakers he here in the u.s. have raised questions about whether this makes it easy to do identity theft if someone should hack google. nothing has been determined ab about whether this is exactly legal or not. >> so a lot of people obviously will be very concer

they're actually looking at di encrypting all of the data that comes out so for example when you use g. mail your all your e-mails are encrypted by default google has given you the service and has allowed you to say my communications are protected now the n.s.a. center is designed around building systems that will d. encrypt that data and remove any protection a chicken put onto it earlier this month cia director david petraeus painted a picture of america's dystopian freefall when describing the emergence of the internet of things that freeze refers to an increasing amount of personal information washington will eventually be able to obtain once all who electronics are wired to a network of u.s. intelligence officials estimate that by twenty twenty up to one hundred billion ordinary devices such as refrigerators and dishwashers could be wired up to the internet just the way p.c.'s and cell phones are now that bottomless pit of data could allow big brother to monitor virtually anything it wants even the cia director says. very idea of secrecy will change forever. r.t. new york. business now

google says it is now streamlining its privacy policy across all of the services so anyone with g mail, youtube or google plus account will have their web searches cracked by google under their name. it's all about targeting advertising to user's personal profile. >> the more effective the ads are the more money they will get for them. >> experts say limit what they collect by not logging on to their google accounts during searches. users can also delete their search history. the attorney general of 36 states including california call a policien an invasion of privacy. the facebook social network may not be as social as users think. facebook executive revealed that a typical post is only seen by 16% of the users a friend. company says that that's true across all demographics and all types of post. facebook says it is in part because of redesign it removed some contents of users names. political world is reacting to the sudden death of conservative blogger. he collapsed while walking at his home in brent wood just after midnight. the cause of his death is not known but he has suffered f

those who use g-mail, google+, or youtube will see more specific results.e are against this new policy and say it's an invasion of privacy and allows the company to sell off your information to advertisers. >>> stay with us. "news 4 today" continues now at 5:00 a.m. >>> picking up the pieces the destruction left behind after a number of deadly tornadoes teared through communities across the heartland of this country. good morning. welcome back to "news 4 today." i'm joe krebs. >> and i'm eun yang. we're going to take a live look outside at 4:59. 57 degrees at this time. the hour is nice. it's march 1st but feeling like spring, tom. >> it is. it's the first day of meteorological spring as well. it's in the month of march, ap

now it will have just one for sites, including search, g- mail, google and google plus.s cross- referencing for users which is good for advertisers. >>> today the u.s. senate is due to vote on legislation concerning birth control healthcare coverage. ed up a lot of pressure from the catholic chch, president obama rewrote the policy to shift from employers to theirp in-- after a lot of pressure from the catholic church, president obama rewrote the policy to shift from employees. >>> parkers will be allowed to park at broken marking meters as long as they don't stay past the posted sign limit. >>> 7:06. cash customers riding caltrain will soon have to pay a bit more. claudine wong is live in san francisco on a break down on the proposed hike. >> good morning. things are getting busy here at the caltrain station this morning t looks like this summer it may cost more to ride caltrain. the question is how much more. this morning at 10:00 a.m. there will be a vote taking place on a fair hike proposal. but this is considered a compromise proposal. here is what's being wrote. ri

starting today, if you use google search, google plus, g- mail or you tube, what you do and say wille compiled in a user profile. google executives say it is a way to improve your experience by allowing advertisers to be more specific in who they target. >> it is about improving relevance and using information that you shared with google to make google products and services more useful for you. >> at this point, most people realize that when you go online, some of the information you give is shared. however, what may surprise you is that what you say in a personal e-mail may now be tracked and used for advertising purposes and that is what has many people concerned. >>> organizers of the america's cup race next year on san francisco bay said the race will be on network television for the first time in two decades. they say nbc plans to carry the competition and that will come after the nbc sports network show the america's cup world series, a set of races this summer leading up to the america's cup in 2013. >>> organizers hope the exposure will generate interest in the america's cup

theinformation of the platform and what they collect about you in a single holding place and that includes g-mail google plus youtube and more. they say they will use the information to better customize your search results and you will see ads more targeted towards your preference and google says they won't sell your information to advertisers. >> at this point absolutely i have to trust google and in a sense on one hand google is probably more trustworthy than the other technology companies. but because they know so much about us we have to hold them to a higher standard of trust. >> so the new policies raised eyebrows because users can't on the out without closing their accounts. now, this can be problematic down the road because if you rely so much on google, then you're at the mercy of the provider but if you want to be search without being tracked sign out of your account and do searches anonymously. >>> >>> and good morning. it's 5:16 on the roads right now, a travel advisory as you head out this morning in baltimore and surrounding counties. dense patchy fog awaiting for. you we had a chec

information for g-mail, they are putting them together. >> is there a way to avoid all of this beings abstinence. google make it is fairly easy, by going to a dashboard and your add preferences and you can opt ut of everything. you can also not have the same account in every place. you can be one person on youtube and another person on someplace else. they will require you to sign up for a google plus account but you don't have to be the same user. bloggers allow you to block, suppress your web history. so the sky isn't falling here at all. >> but you know what, john, there's a reuters report out that says twitter may be selling and marketing your information as well. do we know anything about that? >> i just saw the other story. evidently, based on the reuters story, what twitter is doing is selling information that you have, once again, given twitter. your tweets are archived. some people put location to these tweets. so what's happening is these companies will take that information, go over it with a fine-tooth comb and figure out how to better market stuff to you. the easy way ou

google has always collected information about users who register for its more than 60 products, from g-mail, youtube, android phones and its social networking site. but now, all that information will be in one place. >> it makes google able to provide services to users to allow their information that they've trusted google with to deliver better services for them. >> reporter: the other goal, more precisely targeted advertising. >> improving the relevance of that advertising is going to be helpful to the user and improve their experience of the product. >> reporter: and profitable to google and profitable to the advertiser? >> certainly. >> sometimes we show ads -- >> reporter: google's manager for trust and safety has been advising users to, well, continue to trust google. >> we don't collect personal information or share it with others without your permission. >> reporter: but there are skeptics, worried that hackers and identity thieves might now try for one-stop access to everything google knows about you. >> feel like there's no boundaries. >> reporter: the attorneys general from 37 st

>> tom: big changes at google-- if you search, use g-mail or youtube, the web giant is tracking your moves. it's all about advertising and strikes a sour note with privacy advocates. >> susie: consumers were shopping and spending at the malls last month, boosting sales for many of the nation's retailers. >> i think the consumer confidence is better, and i think people are willing to spend more money. >> susie: it's "nightly business report" for thursday, march 1. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. stocks rose on this first day of march, as investors welcomed good economic news. more signs today the job market is improving-- claims for jobless benefits fell to a four year low. susie, this shows that employers are slowing the pace of layoffs. >> susie: tom, another positive indicator-- retail sales. many of the nation's largest chain stores rang up strong numbers in february. target sales rose a better than expected 7%;, macy's and

the policy affects users logged into a google account, such as g-mail, google plus or you-tube. it allows google to gather data about what an individual user does online and target advertising towards them. critics say it's an invasion of privacy. >>> a judge says tobacco companies do not have to print graphic images on packs. a federal government mandate required cigarette packs to carry images like these later this year. the judge says it's a violation of free speech. i'm sure it may make people think twice about buying them. >> no doubt. ashley morrison in new york. thank you. >>> a funeral and memorial are being planned this morning for davy jones. lead singer of the made for tv rock band "the monkees." jones died yesterday near his home in florida. edward lawrence looks back at his life. >> ♪ here we come walk down the streets ♪ >>> davy jones was already a seasoned performer when producers picked him and three other unknowns to be "the monkees," it was 1965. the beatles were invading america. hollywood wanted to create its own american version. the tv show featured jones a

of the new policy by manually deleting your google web history or by not signing into sites like g mailn searching on google. >> we have to fundmentally trust that people like google, microsoft, facebook, whoever it is that v. our best interests at heart. if you fundamentally do not trust them, you shouldn't be using their services. >> it is important to keep in mind that google can still track you when you are not logged into one of its services but the information isn't quite as revealing because google doesn't track you by name. they only go through new ulm, a internet addressed attached to your computer. if you want to opt out, there are ways to do this. >> good to know. >> thank you. >>> it has been one of the greatest feats ever in sports and will lineally never be repeated. we are remember ago legendary moment. >>> we are about a month away from opening day for the washington nationals. michael morris coming off a great season but says he is hungry and humble. we'll hear what else he has to say.  . make plans now to join joel and victoria osteen in our

cribbing all of the data that comes out so for example when you use g. mail you're all your e-mails are encrypted by default google has given you the service and has allowed you to say my communications are protected now the n.s.a. center is designed around building systems that will d.m. crap that data and remove any protection that you can put onto it so it's not only gathering the information it's doing its best to be able to look at any information that you put protections on i mean that just seems kind of crazy to me obviously when you talk about security there's often you know it often goes hand in hand with secrecy but we live in the united states of america there's a constitution and this kind of stuff i mean if you're talking about is not supposed to be happening other than these you know we as you said these whistleblowers have come forth and said in fact it is happening why how do they justify this well the i don't know what the n.s.a. has justified it other than just knives and this is their modus operandi for five years and that's it has been lit

g.-mail really quick and i can look through everything like you know that's been written to you can you bring me your home video recorder and show me any tapes you've ever made i don't know i think of an h.r. manager asks you for your facebook password you should say you know what salute i will do it as soon as you give me the bank account number and routing number so this firm and you have full access to my facebook that's actually not even necessary that some poking around it and i found out that it is against facebook's terms and conditions to give anyone your password or access to your account you know those crazy terms a confession is no one really. but no i mean that's that's actually like written in print on their terms and conditions you can just say you know i'd love to but unfortunately i read all the terms and conditions for all the websites. but unfortunately no one actually ever reads all the terms and conditions and if you really need a job with an hour you would necessarily in a position to say like you know like go show because this is a violation of my privacy really vi

giants a delay in making a controversial changes now what happens is all of google services like g. mail and you tube they are now all streamlined into one profile google maintained that will give consumers a more personalized glad experience but critics say it allows the company it's a compile a vast amounts of infer personal information and store it all in one place to talk more about what this means for your privacy conn hallinan columnist for foreign policy and focus joins us now so can i what do you make of these changes well i think the idea that google is doing this in order to give you a better person experience is something that you know you are real careful about except you know i mean this is about quantity and i think in this case particularly not only are they collecting an enormous amount of information but i don't really think that you can trust you will get or with what they do with it he could see already been caught. essentially figuring out a way to supply cookies there is these little things that allows them to track you when you go browsing on the web can slip these