Laura Bruno ~ Reclaiming Privacy

Laura Bruno’s Blog | March 23 2012

If, like me, you’re getting a little bored with Big Brother watching all the time and really wish he would get bored, too, I’ve discovered a few things you can do today. I can’t vouch for whether or not other search engines are doing similar things, but Google/YouTube keep coming out with doozies.

For example, I discovered this morning that Laura Bruno’s Blog has its own YouTube channel, which, no, I did not create. It had somehow managed to link this account to a gmail address that I have never made public and that I’ve only used so far to receive a few Sprint iPhone bills. I will be changing that over and deleting my gmail account as soon as I have time to wade through that red tape. I haven’t figured out how to delete the YouTube channel, since I didn’t even know I had one anymore!

I find this YouTube channel both disturbing and ironic. Last Summer, YouTube  terminated my own channel, falsely censoring my videos for supposed “repeated copyright infringement.” I’ve mentioned this fact before: despite repeat attempts to contact YouTube and Google about the impossibility of copyright infringement when I was telling my own story and observations as a Medical Intuitive and sharing my own painted doors, they refused to reinstate the channel I actually created. Yet now, somehow, it’s fine for YouTube to create its own channel “on my behalf,” which just happens to list every single video I’ve posted since March 2011 — even videos posted on entries I’ve since removed from this site.

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