google insight panel

[98slowbra]

Got a nice letter in the mail from Google where they want to install what they call a router in my home to see what websites we visit at my house and what we use the internet for. They would install a cisco router valued at $150 for free and pay each of us $15 a month. It will not track the websites you login to like Netflix and your bank and such but the free ones it will. After telling them my Router(Asus) was over $300 and I have a Access Point(Asus), Media bridge upstairs(Asus), Media bridge in basement(Asus), Repeater in basement(Asus) and a 1gig cisco business switch all with 44 clients on my home network. They told me it would over load it, then they said it was a tracker and it went from my cable modem to the tracker to the router(run my internet speed down is my guess collecting and sending all that data). I run all AC at my house and my media bridges hook up to my router at 877 meg and the other one hooks up at 1300 meg. They said my network was just to big for this to handle, I really did not want to do it anyhow, but that would be a invasion of privacy I was thinking, do they really want to see all the porn sites I hit? LOL anyone else get this letter with $2 cash in it?

 

[Black2010]

Haven't got anything in the mail but am very surprised they even need the equipment for what they say it's used for. They can easily see what you search for without that stuff.

 

[TheShadow]

Especially if you use Chrome. The amount of data mining by all parties involved is staggering though. It's not just Google.

 

[MFE]

Got a nice letter in the mail from Google where they want to install what they call a router in my home to see what websites we visit at my house and what we use the internet for. They would install a cisco router valued at $150 for free and pay each of us $15 a month. It will not track the websites you login to like Netflix and your bank and such but the free ones it will. After telling them my Router(Asus) was over $300 and I have a Access Point(Asus), Media bridge upstairs(Asus), Media bridge in basement(Asus), Repeater in basement(Asus) and a 1gig cisco business switch all with 44 clients on my home network. They told me it would over load it, then they said it was a tracker and it went from my cable modem to the tracker to the router(run my internet speed down is my guess collecting and sending all that data). I run all AC at my house and my media bridges hook up to my router at 877 meg and the other one hooks up at 1300 meg. They said my network was just to big for this to handle, I really did not want to do it anyhow, but that would be a invasion of privacy I was thinking, do they really want to see all the porn sites I hit? LOL anyone else get this letter with $2 cash in it?

That sound like a Comscore panel invite, if it's even legit at all. Google doesn't need hardware for its insights on your behavior, but other companies (some legit, some not) might try.

 

[DHG1078]

Interesting. As stated, I can't see Google needing hardware to data mine. That's their core business, and they have never needed it.

 

[Stanger00]

Haven't got one but thanks for the heads up.

I find it surprising that they would actually want to issue hardware to collect more data as if they do not get enough from everyone using google for just about everything.

It's just another grab for our data to be sold off to other agencies to further control demographic habits.


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