Google+被曝收集并出售用户上网行为数据-科技频道-金鱼财经网

新华网2月18日电 据美国科技博客Gizmodo报道，《纽约时报》近日报道称Google旗下社交网络Google+被曝收集其用户的网络浏览行为和信息，并将之出售给广告商。

据报道，早在2011年Google+就曾因强制实施实名制遭到用户炮轰。Google+产品副总裁布拉德利·霍洛维茨(Bradley Horowitz)不得不表示，“Google+让用户有机会做真正的自己，也让Google对用户有一个基本的了解。”

“由此可见，Google+对用户来说似乎并没什么意义，反倒是用户被Google所利用了”，在线媒体网站PaidContent创始人拉法特·阿里（Rafat Ali）评论称。

《纽约时报》在报道中还指出，Google+自开始所收集用户数据以来，收集到的数据愈发有价值，这也让谷歌在数据获取方面比Facebook更胜一筹。作为谷歌收入的主要来源之一，广告搜索近期有所放缓，因此谷歌更亟需了解用户在网上的浏览行为。

译者：张免

As a social network, Google+ is just a bunch of empty circles spinning in a barren wasteland. But Google could give a fuck if consumers prefer Facebook. What the $400 billion data vacuum really wanted, reports The New York Times, is to track everything you do online and sell that personal information to advertisers.

No shock there. Critics sawthiscoming as far back as 2011 when Google+ started forcing profiles to use their real names and Google+ suddenly became your sign-in for other Google services. But the company finally confessed their long con to theTimes, albeit with a corporate spin:

"Google Plus gives you the opportunity to be yourself, and gives Google that common understanding of who you are," said Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product management for Google Plus.

Thus proven once & for all: Google+ has no use for users, but users are being used by Google. Google admits it.— Rafat Ali (@rafat) February 15, 2014

Since it launched, the type of data Google+ collects has become even more valuable—and Google is getting better at collecting it than Facebook.

Now that search advertising, the primary source of Google"s profits, has slowed, the company has gotten more aggro about tracking what you do online, says the Times.