By Soren Dreier
Google is working to collect information about Internet users that it can’t get from just monitoring its own browser, services, and Android devices. The company has set up a new program called Screenwise, which offers money to users who install a black box on their home network to “measure Internet use.” A smaller amount of money will go to those who install a browser extension on their computers that will do the same thing.
Google quietly started up the Screenwise data collection program Tuesday night, taking the e-mail addresses of people who are interested in “add[ing] a browser extension that will share with Google the sites you visit and how you use them.” For their participation, Google offers the extension users a $5 Amazon gift card for signing up and another $5 gift card for every three months they stay with the program. Less publicly, Google also started looking for people who would install a piece of hardware on their network to do more extensive monitoring.
Ehh : What about the rest of us. For free, then?
This a google mindbender : ” The only one´s we spy on is our ” Employees “. Extended version.
Ahh, sweet surplus in times of struggling…….Please bend over.
The timing, it´s so perfect. Can’t make ends meet: Get a black box or a browser extension.
Kids: Google helping with the pocket money. Be ” Screenwise”. Who wouldn’t want that!
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