You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Google.
If FACEBOOK is the devil, then Google is the dark shadow that lurks in the cyber shadows.
Google as you know is a search engine, that’s also a mapping tool, and a news agency and an email site. Some say it is too powerful.
The author of the new book; Search and Destroy – why you can’t trust Google, says the company violates your privacy and knows more about you than you know about yourself.
Damn, that’s scary.
Does Google know that I want a ham sandwich with mayonaisse, right now?
Does Google know that I like YouTube videos of cats playing piano?
Does Google know that I just mapped my way to the local liquor store for another adult livation?
According to the author, the answer is yes, yes, and yes.
The author says that Google keeps copies of all we do, it keeps track of who we are, it maintains records of where we go.
The Google Gods know what we look like, what we sound like, what our political affiliations are. In short, the internet leviathan knows everything about us.
Google dismisses the concerns, with Corporate officials saying;
“Is it possible to be quoted shrugging my shoulders. Eveyrone knows that (the author) Mr Cleland stopped being a neautral analyst long ago.”
The book raises anti trust concerns.
Expert Marc Rotenberg is quoted on FOX NEWS as saying, it would be like the largest car maker also produce oil and constructing the highways. They would own it all. It is similar with the internet and Google.”
Scott Cleland says Google knows all:
What you read: News, commentary, and books.
What you watch: YouTube, Google TV.
What you write/receive: Gmail and Google Docs.
What you believe: Politics and religion: search, News, YouTube, Groups, Gmail, Buzz, etc.
In a lot of ways Google knows everything your mother and wife know about you. Google knows what your bartender and girlfriend know about you. Google knows what your poker playing buddies and drinking buddies know about you. Google knows what your priest, your politician and your boss know about you.
If all these people kept their mouth shut, there’s no problem, but if one or all of them start gabbing, then your goose is cooked.
Is Google the dark shadow the author alleges? It depends. If the internet giant is responsible with your every mouse click, then no harm no foul.
But if information is channeled like so much data in a binary rain storm, then watch out.
They say absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Big Brother may just be an internet monster with a rainbow colored monicker waiting to run your life, after it predicts how it will run your life.
And that is crazy.™