You may have been contacted by Google:
We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and easier to read. …
These changes will take effect on March 1, 2012.
Some are freaking out.
That’s dopey. Not much is changing. Here’s a much more measured assessment:
Read Write Web – Tech World Overreacts to Google’s New Privacy Policy – How Does It Affect You?
… You know what you can do? Stop sharing things you don’t want tracked. …
Before and after March 1st best advice is not to do anything online you’ll regret in future. Somebody, somewhere could be tracking it. And it probably won’t be Google. They’re one of the least evil players.
If you want to dig into this deeper, the best authority is Jeff Jarvis. He’s the author of:
• What Would Google Do?
• Public Parts
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related – Student-Athlete Privacy
On Gymnastike, Anne commented on some NCAA schools using a 3rd party service called Varsity Monitor to follow their team online.
They flag “questionable conduct“.
That’s a bit scary. But I suspect Universities are mainly worried about what their high profile basketball and football players say. Gymnasts are probably the least of their worries.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 