And overly credulous idiots like the poster above deserve attention? Basically, Google gets all of your Internet habits, regardless whether you run a secure browser or install their turdware or not.
PS- bet you wouldn’t call me a monkey to my face, boy. You’re vewwy bwave in your daddy’s basement 😉
I’m always curious to what the tin foil crowd actually believe could happen to them. In all seriousnessm SP, what do you think google is going to do to you? Do you think they will send droids into your house or something worse?
[quote=sdrealtor]I’m always curious to what the tin foil crowd actually believe could happen to them. In all seriousnessm SP, what do you think google is going to do to you? Do you think they will send droids into your house or something worse?[/quote]
Patriotic Act. The fear is not primarily that Google will abuse you in some unexpected manner. As long as you are aware that you are the product, not the customer everything is fine. But the government might use the data to identify dangerous individuals in order to protect the public.
Corporations are composed of people. Would you be comfortable with any one person looking over your shoulder at all of your Internet usage, email, documents, and searches? That’s what Google is trying to do, basically.
[quote=spdrun]Corporations are composed of people. Would you be comfortable with any one person looking over your shoulder at all of your Internet usage, email, documents, and searches? That’s what Google is trying to do, basically.[/quote]
It is unlikely that any one person has access to raw data through multiple services. And even for individual services there is large risk, it’s not like a DBA can run a query in the production environment with no audit trail.
But the data could be mined for patterns of risky behaviors. People at Target figured out how to recognize that a customer is likely pregnant by monitoring shopping patterns (spike in lotion consumption near the end of first trimester). Just as easily skilled miners could identify patterns of potential sexual predators, tax evaders and terrorists. We could stop all that before it happens!
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