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Posted By: Palatnik 308 days ago
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Who should fear Google and Why?
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from TannerC 307 days ago # - show/hide this comment
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I seem to have a first-love type relationship with Google, but from reading from Matt Cutts and other Google employees I think we can sleep safe at night.

Google puts a lot into security of our information, I trust them and I think others should too.

The real question here is: when do we stop trusting them?

from GotanRaider 307 days ago #
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When you are checking your web based gmail and you see google knows you are talking with your buddies about buying a car so they show you relevant car ads... you know something's up.

Adsense, google analytics, feedburner, gmail, youtube, google desktop and I ran out of breath but the list keeps going. There's no way out.

from semfan 307 days ago #
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Those are only the popular Google properties...Google has also aquired many companies, (i.e. i forget, i think its a telephone system company, or something of that sort) holding private information.

from betweenstations 307 days ago #
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Where TannerC is reassured by the words of a Matt Cutts, I have to take another view.

1. How high up in the strategy of the company are the empowered spokespeople? I'm sure people like Matt believe what they're saying, but it's often hard to see the long-term strategies of the company if you aren't on the Executive Committee. There's also the impact of shareholders.

2. There's a double-edge: Empowered SE employees are at once a source of information, but as likely to be a source of propaganda (within reasonable limits as impacted by being market-traded).

from flyingrose 306 days ago #
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Not only is it necessary to consider what GOOGLE will do with all the data they've compiled; we also need to consider what others who can obtain that data will do with it. Few truly understand the power of data mining and the enormous amount of information those you would never imagine have and can obtain.

Every use of technology is a double-edged sword. Whatever can be used to "protect" us can also be used to "stalk" us. If you're too young to remember the book 1984 you may want to check it out.

from ryanlash 298 days ago #
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Here is a link to the full article (Posted By garyprice 9 days ago):

http://sphinn.com/story/4350


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