Google "1952 B3B Truck

[pflaming]

I put that information in to google, then opened  'images'. They have pictures!!!! Some of our forum members' trucks are in the mix. Two pictures of my truck.  Question: How do those pictures get in that link? 

[Don Coatney]

Google is on line on this forum right now harvesting that information.   29 users are online (in the past 15 minutes)

6 members, 22 guests, 1 anonymous users   (See full list)

 

Don Coatney*, Google Mobile, Bing, Ricky Luke, pflaming, 1940plymouth, roadworthy, kitesurfjohn, oldodge41

[Apittslife]

Any site that allows the public to view their site with out being a member, is harvested Via Bots for both text & images.

 

 Within a week of my posting pics in my build thread here, they became available via Google search.

 

 If you do not wish to allow Google to have them, You can contact them & request them to remove any & all content Text & or Images by you, & they are required to do so as soon as they are able.

[pflaming]

I did not know about what you guys are saying. Seems it should be the reverse, that they must ask, I should not have to protect myself. I wonder how much else of what I'm unaware of the cyber world knows of me. Is there a way to find out?  The extended ramifications of this are sobering. People who are on a lot of forums, social medias, etc., are cyber armadillos in Plymouthy's back yard! If the govt. ever wants to (and they apparently already do) track a group of citizens they have the unknown consent of all on the social medias. THAT IS VERY FRIGHTENING.  

 

EDIT: ggdag 51, it continues to amaze me what one learns on this forum.  The cyber media is incredible yet like rifles and drugs, it can be a very helpful tool or a weapon of mass destruction. I just hope my defense of the dilla will protect me from PEDA. 

Edited June 3, 2013 by pflaming

[ggdad1951]

welcome to the new age...I have friends that REFUSE to participate on anything online and request we don't post pictures with them in them, but even with draconian stances liek that, they still end up out there.  There is no such thing as annominity anymore.

 

EDIT:  I did a search around FEF's parameters and oddly only a few pictures showed up of him, and mostly some of the FIRST ones I posted.  Nothing recent.

Edited June 3, 2013 by ggdad1951

[TodFitch]

I did not know about what you guys are saying. Seems it should be the reverse, that they must ask, I should not have to protect myself. . . 

 

The Internet, from Day One, has been basically as private as a billboard located on a major highway.

 

The fact that Google and some of the other search engines will honor a block request on a site is good. But they have no legal obligation to do that and they may still be monitoring and tracking it themselves, just not listing the results in search requests. Remember that Google, Facebook and others make their money by selling information about you to advertisers and the more they can find out about you the more money they make. Big Brother is here but it is not the government you need to worry about, it is big business. Not that the government might not also be harvesting information on you but they are not being as blatant about it or selling the information gathered. Even GTK on this site is assisting the data harvesters: my blocking software shows tracking bugs for Facebook and Google here.

 

The web sites I program for a couple of the organizations I belong to are setup so no member specific information is made available to anyone or any web crawler unless they are logged in. And while getting information about my visitors might be nice, I refuse to add tracking bugs for the likes of Google, to help me get that information. But most sites are not programmed that way.