does Google record all our sensitive info without our permission???

Anybody can send you mail to your home address anytime they want to. That's just the way it is. How they got your address and what else they have on you who knows?

George Wright

Google does what google wants to! Look at google earth, can type your address in it and see exactly where you live. Google is pretty secure with their data but still.

This is just too silly...

If you didn't give them your address they could only have
obtained it from a source of public info. Unless sending mail
through the postal service is now illegal your rights haven't
been violated.

There's a lot of unbelievable crap being posted around here lately...

Tsnyder

Google sent out a promotion to certain individuals who did things like sign up for
hosting.... etc

Do you have a Google AdSense account? I know I recently got a voucher...

If you think its against your rights, then all junk mail is under that same law. I've gotten those from a number of different companies (such as VistaPrint, etc) so I'm not certain it would be from Google directly. But you never know. They obviously know where you live if you are listed in any search results at all. But sometimes I think we give more power to the Googs then they probably have. Oh no did they just hear me say that?!?

ps - feel free to send me your coupon. hehe i don't mind people sending me free stuff in the mail. and you do need to enter your credit card info. to use any adwords coupons!

My guess is that Google rented the mailing list of some other business that's popular with Internet marketers... maybe Godaddy, Namecheap, Hostgator, Aweber, someone like that.

And Donald Trump bought some similar list(s), too.

Just got a letter from "him" - inviting me to a local (6 hrs!) seminar.
On the envelope it says: Are you my next Apprentice?

Just for the record: I never gave my address to Donald Trump. Ever. And I didn't sign up for any kind of account with him giving false address

Did you sign up for a free marketing CD/DVD?

Every time I have, always started getting offers in the mail. (not complaining. was expected)

Part of your question asked if Google was collecting your information without your permission and no they are not.

You gave them permission when you decided to use their service as stated in their several pages of Privacy Policies and how they collect and use data.

When any one of us uses Google or any other site on the Internet it is implied that by using the service we have consented to the policies.

If they have it written down for you and me to read that they will gather our info and use it for marketing purposes, then we agreed to it.

Another possibility is that Google bought your information from another party that you did give permission to unknowingly.

I worked in telemarketing many years ago and was selling home improvement products (windows and siding), well as you can guess, many people get upset when you call and the first thing they ask is "how did you get my information"?

The bank sells it. The bank was selling us lists of homeowners. If you have a checking account you need to read the fine print.

Or any other business that you have given "sensitive" information to. Part of their marketing policies are that after they have tried to sell you everything that they have and you don't buy, they sell you to a list.

Most people don't know that when Radio Shack gets tired of sending you brochures they sell your info to a list. That is how everyone gets on a telemarketer's list.

I know for a fact that some big marketers here online are selling and buying your (not you but the general you) information right now.

It's all in the fine print.

You are simply on a mailing list, that Google has bought.

I spend thousands a month on Adwords, yet I still get Google mailing to me to try Google Adwords for the first time!

Proof that big G does not tap into any underground database of secret info.

They are just playing a numbers game, and following standard marketing principles.

Pete

This is why Google won the Big Brother Award years back, lol

this thread is somewhere close to the topic of
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...about-you.html

I wouldn't worry about that. Credit card companies have long been doing that already. Also, in the United States (and Canada?), laws have been adjusted so authorities may gather all sorts of information about you without having to tell you nary a word about it. So, Google isn't doing anything new.