I buzzed this video through my Google account first. Mostly, my friends replied in person or over the telephone in agreement that Google Empire could be...one heck of a problem 20-30 years from now for numerous reasons.
On line one person replied crying: “You're freaking me out!!!!!!!!!! “
“So what? :)” concluded another.
“So? Nothing! :)” – I answered back – “Google just... gonna see you visit this website, and will store that. With the amount of power Google has, they can make deals about the future of the Internet, and thereby force decisions onto you. Oh, and one more thing. They already know about everything you look at online, including all those porn sites you've been to! ;)”
He wasn’t impressed with my comprehensive (as I thought) respond, so he replied back again.
“But, if you don't want to be seen somewhere / doing something, don't be there / don't do it. Or make sure there are no satellites above your head when you walk out of a strip club / sex shop. :)”
And that rejoinder made me to present my ample counterargument.
“The key words ‘to make sure!'” – I wrote, – “and if you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.
Somehow people can't get it – any kind of personal info own by a "big bro" can be used against them. Sometime, somewhere, some day...
The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen...
If you say to people that they can’t protect their conversations, I think that will take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.
The privacy and dignity of our citizens easily can be whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen before -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a person’s life.
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I guess, we all love Google. We use it every day.
But...
"Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they’ll say, “No.”
If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they’ll say, “Yes.”
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