but at that point, google won't be the google recruiter please. the mature google of different pressures. who will note the world wide web is in 20 years. we didn't know 20 years ago. and as we move more of our information seeking habits and shopping seeking habits to lock down close devices that aren't really on the web, but connected to digital networks on the lattice. the less money google will make in the long term unless he can keep expanding market. this is an interesting battle going on that we should pay attention to. google wants people to be comfortable with the web is a certain beginning and is doing everything it can to keep the unit open and free because that is good for google, not just because it is just happens to be good for us, but over time not everything good for google will be good for us don't have to be prepared for that diverges. at those moments we have alas, i did ames really want to preserve and extend and build that google should not do for us or could not do for us. under those conditions, we might want to decide to ta

but at that point, google won't be the google recruiter please. the mature google of different pressures. who will note the world wide web is in 20 years. we didn't know 20 years ago. and as we move more of our information seeking habits and shopping seeking habits to lock down close devices that aren't really on the web, but connected to digital networks on the lattice. the less money google will make in the long term unless he can keep expanding market. this is an interesting battle going on that we should pay attention to. google wants people to be comfortable with the web is a certain beginning and is doing everything it can to keep the unit open and free because that is good for google, not just because it is just happens to be good for us, but over time not everything good for google will be good for us don't have to be prepared for that diverges. at those moments we have alas, i did ames really want to preserve and extend and build that google should not do for us or could not do for us. under those conditions, we might want to decide to ta

but at that point, google won't be the google recruiter please.the mature google of different pressures. who will note the world wide web is in 20 years. we didn't know 20 years ago. and as we move more of our information seeking habits and shopping seeking habits to lock down close devices that aren't really on the web, but connected to digital networks on the lattice. the less money google will make in the long term unless he can keep expanding market. this is an interesting battle going on that we should pay attention to. google wants people to be comfortable with the web is a certain beginning and is doing everything it can to keep the unit open and free because that is good for google, not just because it is just happens to be good for us, but over time not everything good for google will be good for us don't have to be prepared for that diverges. at those moments we have alas, i did ames really want to preserve and extend and build that google should not do for us or could not do for us. under those conditions, we might want to decide to tak

we are google's product.r whole business model is based on assemble digital dossiers about us and selling ads around that and it is a successful business model for them. they bring in about $30 billion in revenues a year. so we think that -- i'm sorry? >> judge jeanine: go ahead. >> i was simply going to say that i think that consumers need to understand that business model and also need to be able to get control over whether their data is shared and gathered and one of the problems that happened last week that was revealed in the "wall street journal" after a stanford researcher jonathan mier established this was that google was, sir couple venting settings on the safari browsers to put down tracking cookies. little bits of computer code. >> judge jeanine: and thomas, you are with the "wall street journal" that broke the story about them. can we trust google? >> that is the big question. the white house unveiled a whole privacy bill of rights and many of the internet companies including google signed on to p

once word leaked out, google quickly cut it off. >> reporter: if you're a fan of google and apple, listen up. turns out google has been keeping a close eye on you. the wall street journal reports google was bypassing privacy settings on apple's safari browser to monitor your information, specifically on the iphone, and it was doing it without permission. >> in this particular case google went around the protections of the browser and pulled information. their defense has been at least so far this morning that we're not doing anything that apple i was doesn't do. >> reporter: so why would going -- apple itself doesn't do. >> reporter: so why would google do this without permission? it all comes down to advertising. it can specifically target you with ads that appeal to your interest which turn into clicks and for google those clicks mean dollars, but according to experts, it isn't just google doing it. when you log on, watch out. >> this was clearly wrong. google recognized it was wrong, which is why they turned it off, but people shouldn't have an expectation to privacy on the web. we are

: google's slogan: do no evil. this evil? >> i think it raises questions about evil. i hesitate to give a bright line response on the evil or not. i think if evil includes negligence or gross negligence then this is evil. >> reporter: in a statement, google insists the tracking codes it planted do not collect personal information and that it didn't anticipate this would happen when it made changes to improve access to google features on safari. tracking users online habits is the most valuable information internet companies and advertisers can get. john simpson, a consumer advocate, says user preferences and information are what google is selling. >> don't think of yourself as google's customer. you are google's product. >> reporter: and when you go online, do you turn all the privacy settings up full? >> for sure. i think it's pretty absurd. you shouldn't need a ph.d. in computer science to be able to protect yourself. >> reporter: meyers says his research at stanford university shows what we used to call spyware

google or facebook or linked in. able to tell some advertiser i mean one of forty seven thousand and nine and this ip addresses that have some of the following characteristics in terms of my age a rough guess for my income level and the fact that i subscribe to several business magazines and do a lot of international travel and. you know if it's not identifying me by name does it bother me that some targeted ads get sent my way and that i don't get that i have absolutely no interest in. you know in terms of that anonymity if i'm just a number that doesn't bother me. in the other hand if you've got some government that is demanding. we want the names behind the ip addresses that's another issue ok peter jay told me before the program he's not going to i'm on facebook and you're on facebook i mean do you check any of the ads you click on any of the ads on facebook. i never have i never dressed your guests last point in. and the fact that you know you could be on facebook is tracking what you like and what you do at wor

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it as google's customer. you are google's product. >> when you go online, do you turn all the privacy settings up full? >> for sure. you shouldn't need a phd. >> his research has shown that what we used to call spy ware has become standard business practice on the internet. google says that it removed the code that created the privacy black hole. palo alto, california. >>> a law that protects most credit card users is freezing out a lot of others. elizabeth cook tells us some women are suddenly finding they have to ask their husbands for permission. >> it's a little bit of a slap in the face. >> oakland mother gave up her job to stay home with her son, austin. >> we made a very personal decision, what we wanted to do for our household. >> while she provides the child care, her husband brings home the paycheck. but it turns out there's one thing his income can't do for her. >> you must have the ability to repay a debt. i think it would be hard pressed to find someone who didn't agree with that. >> rick harper

personal data from several google services. lastly, you could just decide to remove your google account completely. that way they can't track you at all. >> i do see that they do use some of those like ppl for people or b/c for because or just cuv. >> the culture of social media is a mobile where you are, what you're doing and you're so fast you just want to tell people what you're doing and you don't look over it. >> the worldwide web is becoming home for millions these days. facebook has more than 800 million users. twitter has about 500 million, but what is all this social media doing to our grammar? tammy fritz says she's not seeing a big change in her students' english papers and that they seem to stick to proper grammar in assignments. >>> new information on that plan for that moustache march on washington. we told you about the american mush far institute's push for the stash act and tonight -- mush far institute's push for the stash act and tonight they're getting some support from one lawmaker. >> reporter: did a maryl

what does google know about you? new privacy policies make it harder to keep your information under wraps these days. >>> first up, to our top story today. today is the daze day that greece finally unveils its proposal to swap existing government debt with new bonds worthless than half the value of those previously issued. greece's creditors are bracing themselves for a hit of some 53.5% on just the face value of the investments that they hold, however, the actual loss here that'll be implied will be closer to 70%. this is largely because the new bonds will have lower yields and also maturity. the writedown is a voluntary one. it's not officially a default for greece, but some of greece's big creditors aren't exactly thrilled by this deal. take for instance the chief of come mer rants bank. one of the biggest lenders. it says this writedown was, quote, about as voluntary here, the chief executive martin blessing has been saying, as the spanish inquisition. on thursday they released earnings which revealed billions of

this google issue is on the foforefront everywhere. pepeople startining to figure out what is going to happen to them on march 1. >> what google is doing is invadingng up on everyone's privacy.. the questi is it isis it propriate. >> on march 1, that is the date they have said. >>hat is ing on right now most people do not realize they can g go into your accounts and use your information to give e to advertisers. they are going to take all of their platforms and c combined it together so they will have a deep and rich profile on anyone they want to have no matter what part of google that you use. they are going to combine e it all and sell it to advertrtisers. >>egislators just recently discovered this gmail data mining with a can take all of yo information about your contacts and from itn the google plalatform. they say it is a service provided to consumerers because now they can better tailored to you what is he went to learn about or need. what is yoyour warning? >> it is where you draw the line. internet companies need to make money

google tells nbc news it was an inadvertent technical glitch as set up its google plus community to compete with facebook. how much privacy should we expect? >> i'm not surprised. i figure there is always somebody watching you. >> as long as they can't find my home and hurt my family, i don't care. >> i don't know who is going to use this information how. >> reporter: in fact, at the moment, there are no federal internet privacy laws on the books. the more that google, facebook or anyone else can learn about our online browsing, the more they can customize their advertising to us. >> there is a lot of money knowing who we are, where we are and what we want to buy at any given time, and all these companies are fighting to figure that out. >> reporter: google promised last year not to misrepresent its privacy practices. on the internet, privacy is still an open question. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> so much of this country has been experiencing so much mild weather lately, you could be tempted to think winter never got here and may now be over, but a lot of americans are about to g

chris, what about google? i mean, you know, we posed the question yesterday in our afternoon meeting of one of our producers did about whether or not facebook in essence might make google obsolete if indeed they start to do some of the same things in a big way that google is doing? >> that's a good question. i actually take the other side of this. i think google is actually going to be shown to be in a very good relative state. last year google grew revenues over 30%. doesn't look like that's a company that's in the wane right now. couple big trends happening that are important, one, of course what's going on with mobile and mobile search. and having the android operating system and having the search as being a key part of what's going on in the mobile devices is key. again, remember, google has 66% market share in desktop search but about 95% market share plus in mobile search. >> okay. >> and everything moves to mobile, the company has actually more relevant not less relevant. >> rob, quickly, if you wouldn'

does and google is doing worse. that said, in the united states and think that google is more concerned about facebook than it is about bing. bing is out shopping. nobody goes to bing to research climate change. you go to google to research climate change and that isn't always great but you go to bing to book an airline ticket. as it says in the commercials it's a decision engine. you will never see use bing to find out about dinosaurs. it's not going to happen. they are not interested in driving you that way because it's harder to make money that way, with dinosaur planks. but, for that reason, google is adjusting to what bing is doing by becoming better for shopping but more importantly, google must to keep you happy with the open web steel spend less time on facebook because that is a competitor. they are afraid facebook will manage to leverage all that information we get about the things we love and people we love and turn that into an efficient advertising machine. as of four facebook hasn't mastered it which i

i have a google plus account. trying to deal with facebook and twitter, it's hard to figure out how to add another one. so people aren't going to give google plus that much time unless there's a key reason to. 12k3w4r final questi . >> final question to you, herb. remember how big myspace was? and facebook came in and swatted them away. is there anything that you can think of that could have a similar kind of consequence for the market leaders facebook or twitter? >> look, we don't know. but one of the important reasons to use google plus, especially if you're a journalist or whatever you're doing, is you do get indexed in the google centering. so you show up -- i think jon would agree on that. that's something you get more sort of followers and you're in -- when somebody searches for you or zernlgs for something, they may come to you more. >> when i look up "find herbs," i'm going to get herb greenberg? >> unfortunately you will. >> thanks, herb and jon. appreciate it. >>> let's give you an update on the market.

it's going to be unique but they are going to have a lot of competition from google plus google's decided to get into the social media space and they're going to do that pretty aggressively and overseas they've got a lot of competition too from brazil and china india you know these are these are nations where they have a platform there that they're going to start leveraging their platform to potentially users away from facebook facebook tori's problems trying to get into china at all so you're going to have a lot of people who are more choice going forward they haven't had a lot of competition yet but those days are ahead of them and now they're going to see you know we have to see how they're going to react to that it's interesting you point out in russia facebook is not particularly popular it's here but when there's a russian version that many people are very attracted to jail if we could if we can look at the emerging markets one of the interesting things is and we advertising dollars is a big part of the future of any company like facebook in emerging markets people do not necessaril

in this case google is trying to make the ads more targeted. even from folks who don't want to share information. >> we reached out to google for kmnt. the company wouldn't talk on camera but released a statement saying they created a temporary link between apple browsers and google servers, a link that did not collect personal information. a link that as of today has been disabled. apple is commenting saying that they are working on ways to secure the devices. more on the charges of google and how app makers were able to access your address book from your phone. >> thank you, scott. we'll see you then. >>> not in my backyard. parent are upset about the approval of a cell tower near the school. the tower site is at the edge of school property and within several hundred feet of the playground. the concern about the possible exposure to radio frequency ee electric tro magnetic fields. it's close to homes in the nearby neighborhood. residents plan to appeal next week at the public forum. >>> former workers at a berkeley steel plant took to the str

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>> beyond googling, looking up friends and acquaintances and data generally on the search engine google is so popular, it has a name, "googling." but when it comes to computer snoopg, googling is just the tip of the iceberg. online databases permit prying eyes to peer into divorce records, arrests, lawsuits, business property holdings, persal property holdings, current addresses, phone numbers some engines list maiden names, birth dates and social security numbers. can anyone with a home computer and an internet connection be big brother? is privacy obsolete? we'll ask evan hendricks and stuart pratt both experts in the collection and usage of information. anncr: creating a financial safety net can seem like an impossible goal. complicated. intimidating. something other people get to do. but once you take the first step. you'll find there's nothing standing in your way. metlife. i can do this. >> gentlemen, we will co. is the average person aware of how much -- welcome. the average person aware of how much data is obtainable by the internet? stuart pratt? >> uh-oh, john, i think the lea

. >>> taking on google. maryland's attorney general leads a major challenge against the internet giant's new privacy policy. wjz is live. derek valcourt explains what is wrong and why the attorney general wants to do something about it. derek? >> reporter: he was demanding a meeting with google's top executive, blasting their privacy policy that goes into effect in one week. >> reporter: frequent computer users know the power of google. >> using the google browser almost becomes habit for actually doing quick searches. >> reporter: >> reporter: maryland's attorney general knows it, too. that's why he's raising alarms. gantler wrote this letter to google executives on behalf of attorneys general from 36 states, calling their new privacy policy, troubling, saying it appears to invade consumer privacy. >> what do they do with this information? how are they storing it? is it safe? is it safe from hackers? from identity theft? and who are they giving that information? >> reporter: under the new privacy policy, sh

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kaiser report asks what google is trying to achieve by offering you five dollars in exchange for your search history. you see forty acres and a mule you know they give you five bucks to spy on you then i would be surprised if you have people from overseas rushing to america to get five dollars from google the people in greece for people in greece five dollars twenty five dollars that's a whole six months of pay and it shows you the whole neo feudal system ok now these economies these the rich people the rich communities are those who are doing the spying who get paid to spy on you google is one of the biggest corporations in the world because they spy on you you are poor because you take whatever dregs whatever bread and circuses they trickle down to you you'll take whatever you get you'll accept this being spied on they think of the average first says they're getting free twenty five dollars zero zero zero to three twenty five dollars never for a moment considering that the apparatus that allows them to get that twenty five dollars is disenfranchise them so horribly that the u.s. the

it may well be compared to a google, but facebook is not google.s become the modern day equivalent of the phone book. facebook is not the modern day equivalent of anything in that sense. >> but that's good. isn't that good? >> no, because google is unlikely to suddenly have the fad -- a rival may come along but the fad element isn't. i had a great analyst say once the moment your parents start using facebook, that's when the kids go in the opposite direction. >> let me hit you with this, richard. this is interesting. it struck me as odd. mark zuckerberg, the founder, put out a letter when the ipo is announced. in it, he said this, which i cannot read with a straight face. quote, it was built to accomplish a social mission, to make the world more open and connected. we think it's important that everyone who invests in facebook understands what this mission means to us, how we make decisions and why we do the things we do. it went on to say things like that. he'd like you to think that facebook is all about opening up the world. and i don't object to