{"id":8281,"date":"2012-02-13T22:44:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T02:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=8281"},"modified":"2012-02-13T23:46:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T03:46:54","slug":"google-goes-nielsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/02\/13\/google-goes-nielsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Goes Nielsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/02\/13\/google-goes-nielsen\/google-nielson\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8282\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2012\/02\/Google-Nielson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2012\/02\/Google-Nielson.jpg 445w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2012\/02\/Google-Nielson-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not long after the release of Google\u2019s widely discussed and hotly contested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tecca.com\/news\/2012\/01\/25\/google-privacy-policy-change-march-1-big-brother\/\">privacy policy<\/a>, which shares user data across its websites, the company is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/technology-blog\/google-offering-pay-users-track-every-move-173533318.html\">now offering to compensate customers for the data that they provide.<\/a> Closely resembling the television tracking techniques used by \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielsen.com\/us\/en\/measurement\/television-measurement.html\">Nielsen<\/a>, Google offers users who participate in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/landing\/screenwisepanel\/\">screenwise<\/a> program up to $25 in Amazon gift cards for allowing Google to monitor their online activities. Users can even opt to be more extensively surveilled and earn up to $100. \u00a0While some (in particular, those in the comments section of the article linked above) view this as a cheap payoff for strong privacy violations, others are happy to receive monetary compensation for engaging in everyday leisure activities. This latter group is evidenced by a temporary hold on signups for the new program due to overwhelming interest.<\/p>\n<p>Debates will likely ensue over the cost of privacy, the blurry line between labor and leisure, and the degree to which surveillance can\u2014or should\u2014be resisted.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Editor&#8217;s comment: while this is only a small test, might we envision a model where users are paid for their data? Would it work? What are the implications? ~nathan]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long after the release of Google\u2019s widely discussed and hotly contested privacy policy, which shares user data across its websites, the company is now offering to compensate customers for the data that they provide. Closely resembling the television tracking techniques used by \u00a0Nielsen, Google offers users who participate in the screenwise program up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9967],"tags":[1336,775,143,10514,14083,424,14082,2143],"class_list":["post-8281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-amazon","tag-google","tag-labor","tag-leisure","tag-payment","tag-privacy","tag-screenwise","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}