GOOGLE: how trusted can it be?
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We all know the great amplitude that Google has taken in the last years. Also we know about Google OS and their project to move all data on their servers. But we also know that some - let's say US gov - just an example, please don't be offended, as I could as well to choose other state (China
) are very curious about what individuals do, think, want.So, what is the priority? Short-term safety, or ones privacy? Will Google fight for individuals rights until the end of the world, or the power corrupts and in the end entrusting in other that ourselves can be dangerous?
This is not propaganda in any way. Just a discussion board
. Feel free to vote and hope that SCF administrators will not be forced to divulge your identity and some Google hitmans to visit you late in the night 
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We are all Googlebots!
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I don't trust them at all!
they broke in last night.. raided the fridge.. crashed the car.. made home made explosives from the stuff under the sink and blew up the lawnmower......
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If one has nothing to hide, one has nothing to worry about. I could give a rats ass who or what sees what I do on the net. I have nothing to hide.
And you?
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Rat's Ass?
that come with Ketchup?
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@unknownuser said:
@unknownuser said:
And you?
@unknownuser said:
I could give a rats ass who or what sees what I do on the net. I have nothing to hide.
That says it!!
Yep. It's been quite interesting how this same topic has come up in testing the Chrome OS and Chromebooks that Google has handed out for testing.
Big questions about feedback and Google tracking usage. It's been kind of sad how fearful people are about all of that.
Financial information, I understand. The rest is paranoia.
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@jaxcoffee said:
If one has nothing to hide, one has nothing to worry about. I could give a rats ass who or what sees what I do on the net. I have nothing to hide.
And you?
then put a webcam in your bathroom... and you might want to look at some of the totalitarian regimes of the past, they used the exact same line.
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@krisidious said:
@jaxcoffee said:
If one has nothing to hide, one has nothing to worry about. I could give a rats ass who or what sees what I do on the net. I have nothing to hide.
And you?
then put a webcam in your bathroom... and you might want to look at some of the totalitarian regimes of the past, they used the exact same line.
Oh please!
Mean ole Google.I can't tell you how many times I've heard "Oh be aware!: Their watching you have sex in your backyard using Google Earth!!! Give me a break.
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@jaxcoffee said:
If one has nothing to hide, one has nothing to worry about. I could give a rats ass who or what sees what I do on the net. I have nothing to hide.
And you?
Really? And if the regime changes - think Caribou Barbie getting elected prez, total tea-party victory in senate and house, complete theocratic take-over - what then? You have just publicly cursed, expressed anarchist tendencies and ungodly arrogance about your purity. Off to the re-education churches with you!
What you need to keep private is not a static thing.
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@krisidious said:
@jaxcoffee said:
If one has nothing to hide, one has nothing to worry about. I could give a rats ass who or what sees what I do on the net. I have nothing to hide.
And you?
then put a webcam in your bathroom... and you might want to look at some of the totalitarian regimes of the past, they used the exact same line.
or charge 9.95 a month and make some money on the webcam....
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The question is whether or not Google will "sell out". So far, I feel that Google has the consumer's best interests in line (not divulging personal info a la Facebook, fighting for net neutrality, etc...),but they have done other things that make me wonder if, in the end, they are just like any other business and will tell you anything you want to hear and still try to sell you their mother.
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Why would anyone thrust "Google"? I have a UTube account that I use to post a few videos. Somehow UTube knows what my "off the wall" preferences are, even though I don't use UTube to search for those subjects.
My Mom once told me "it's not your enemies that hurt you, you know who they are, and avoid them. It's your friends, those that you thrust that get to you". Problem is, it doesn't help to know this.
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