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 |
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