Google is Watching You

August 17th, 2009

Google is Watching You

Google is watching you in more ways than one. It is no secret that Google is the biggest repository of people’s online behaviors. If you have used Google but once on your computer, a cookie has been nested in it that tracks everything you do on line and every track of it is stored in Google databases. It gets far worse if you use Google toolbar and further worsens if you agreed for Google History to store your own data for yourself to see. But Google is watching you in more ways than by just tracking your activities on line.

As satellite technology improves, Google Maps views of our planes from space get more detailed. Then you have Google Street View with pictures taken by cameras mounted on cars and trikes riding the streets of popular cities. Google claims that it respects people’s privacy and their software automatically blurs people’s faces and license plate numbers. While the idea of being able to see what streets you may wish to visit look like, there is also an idea of one of those Google tricycles may capture your precious ass in an awkward moment and pictures of it will be all over Google. Imagine you get captured walking with toilet paper stuck to your shoe or vomiting after a good night out. Blurring my face my ass. Google is watching you and while there is a lot of convenience to being able to look up stuff, the inconvenience of being stripped of any and all privacy negates the purpose.

Oh, that cookie that Google embeds in your computer never quits and if you increase your computer’s security settings so it rejects cookies, all Google services quit functioning. You will get an error message appealing on your to enable cookies or else Google won’t provide any of their services. They want something in return for their “services”. They want to know everything about you. And given that Google are good buddies with CIA, this whole “Google is Watching You” phenomenon should make everyone feel uneasy. And rightly so.

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11 Responses to “Google is Watching You”

Google

OH DAMN IT HE FOUND US!

Google

FREAK WTF MOTHER CRACKER!!!!! HOW THE HELL THEY FIND US!!

Youtube.com

BOB SAGGET!

mario

O-O…..thats scary D:

Yahoo!

Come to our side. We’re lieek a bajillion times bettrr. Oh, wait…

Yahoo! Administrator

Hi, I am Bob Saint, A Yahoo Administrator. We do not make cookies unlike google,

meghan

lol who really cares? i have nothing to hide. im not looking up how to make a bomb or anything on the internet so they have no reason to watch me. think about it, over 2 billion people on the internet at one time how would they be tracking them all at once and why would they worry about the normal people?

Ryan

Whoever wrote this article has no idea how cookies work or how Google conducts its business. Google cannot see what sites you visit if you don’t get to the site by clicking the link on Google.com. Whatever sites you visit after clicking the link are also hidden from Google. Google only knows what you click on in its search window.

If you type “www.secret.com” into your browser window, Google can’t know about it unless the people at “www.secret.com” also have put code into their site that gives information to Google cookies.

As for Google street view. All their pictures are taken from public areas. So if you don’t want to get caught doing something you shouldn’t…don’t do it in public. Most people think that someone taking a picture of another person in a public place doesn’t violate privacy; why is a corporation any different?

AJ

You know, you don’t have to use the internet. It’s a choice too. It’s not like they care what name is attached to all that data mining.

An

This is kinda freaky

Person

@Ryan, i pretty much agree with what ur saying besides the public area thing. They got my backyard in that thing and as far as i know my backyard is not a public area!

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