Every time Google quietly adds a new invasive feature to their existing product line, privacy advocates line up around the block to voice their disapproval and decry the death of privacy in the modern age. I’m here to tell you that privacy has been a thing of the past for many years gone by, my friend. Fifty years ago, satellite photo intelligence was accurate enough to tell whether someone was hiding behind or even inside an outhouse. By rudimentary application of Moore’s Law, one could wager that they should now be capable of training their low earth orbit cameras on the outhouse on my acerage, analyzing my gastric contents from the trace amounts of residue on my hands after wiping, reading this message over my shoulder (tell me you’ve never typed from the water closet before), filtering for keywords, alerting homeland security of any breaches in netiquette, not only spell and grammar checking my porn spam but immediately placing penis extension and cialis orders for top brass, and occasionally sending me fake IM alerts from Oedipa Maas just to mess with me for sharing this information with you. Just by reading this blog you are dabbling in things that sleeping man was not meant to know. “The twenty-first century is when it all changes. And you’ve gotta be ready.” – Captain Jack Harkness.
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March 26th, 2010 at 12:58 pm |
Google sees all, knows all, and shares all with the gov.
All big websites, and search engines, and internet providers, and cell phone providers, and mobile device service providers, etc., ALL sell their user data to government.
They not only share it willingly, but profit.
May 4th, 2010 at 3:34 pm |
do you have some photo of aliens or not? if yes, can you put this here?
June 9th, 2010 at 4:08 am |
You’ve said it right. There is hardly any privacy these days. Even there are secret cameras everywhere – on busy streets, buses, trains, banks – so one can not escape those prying eyes. Google applications like this one are going to invade our privacy more and more. Technology has its boons as well as curses!
June 20th, 2010 at 1:29 pm |
ghosts in bangkok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JvTM5dPHN4
September 30th, 2010 at 6:54 pm |
Google were suspected to hacking into people networks while they were driving around taking photos. It used to be objects were the products to be traded, now with google, human being are the products to be traded. well there private information
October 26th, 2010 at 2:54 pm |
Google is aiming towards the singularity i suspect, and amasing as much data as it can about the world so that there is an emmergence of something unexcpected. A breaking of mores law into some un forseen development
October 30th, 2010 at 2:25 am |
Something interesting I saw earlier this month. I have heard many reports that Area 51 is closed. However, I was taking off from McCarren airport on a Monday night at about 8 pm. Three planes behind us on line on the taxi was one of those unmarked white 747′s with the red trim taxi’ing for take off. Absolutely no tail number, or anything indicating anything. It was the exact same plane I had seen on the documentary about Area 51.
It was this plane I saw with my own two eyes. So, they are still moving hundreds of people in and out every day. Hardly closed.
http://dlr.thexhunters.com/info/05_02a.jpg
* this isn’t my pic, this is from a GIS.
November 10th, 2010 at 6:46 am |
its jst a fckin asshole thng…….1!!!!!!!!!!
juzz a publicity stunt.
November 29th, 2010 at 2:52 pm |
Wat is the problem with the street views of Google? Obviously the most of the best world agencies could have a sort of that before the google guys had the idea. For me is the best, if need to visit some place , look for some shop or look for a place to rent (as now) can visit a website, copy the adress and check how good is the neiborhood and how far of shops and centre of the city.
December 12th, 2010 at 9:47 am |
Mabe all the myths are true, how many pictures of ‘UFO’s does it take? How long will it take before people start to realize what is true? Mabe everything is true. No one knows what God created. What do we really know? What does the government want to keep from us? Mabe just a little too much if you ask me!
January 5th, 2011 at 9:09 pm |
We have been reading the articles on your website and are very impressed with the quality of your information.
February 7th, 2011 at 12:32 pm |
I have some very good information ppl in this blog would prob want to hear
June 2nd, 2011 at 7:36 am |
Google is getting too powerful and try to get in our life.
June 12th, 2011 at 10:00 am |
PIEEEEE
October 6th, 2011 at 10:33 pm |
Hello. There’s a channel I subscribe to on youtube that is videos from a paranormal group and their videos have recently been getting really popular and they are now a youtube partner paranormal channel, but anyways they have a new video that was uploaded today that I thought maybe you should put up on your website, well many of their videos are worthy of putting up on your site, but the newest one just really scared the hell out of me. The link to the video is…
http://youtu.be/FBshKIhXtAc
The video shows some kind of paranormal attack on a human, and its not one of those fake videos that people put on youtube just to scare people, this is a real group and I think thats why youtube made them a partner, but you should check out their channel Mass Most Haunted and put at least their newest video up on your website, it’s truly compelling if you ask me, and I’m not part of this group, just love the paranormal and visit your website often and thought I would tell you about it.
- Lisa
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