Day-by-day I become more concerned about the growing influence played by google on us!! google knows every thing about us…
How many times do we google* the web a day?! what kind of stuff do we google?! and to what extent do our search queries reflect who we are and/or what we do?!
Google keeps huge logs about every little beace of information it can absorbs!!.. why?!
Google insists on placing a lot of data in cookies stored in our machines!!.. why?!
I don’t want to mention how severe and privacy threatening are some google services.. like for instance ”google desktop” or “google earth”…
I think we should take the google phenomena seriously!!
BTW, this is a very good and brief article written by Bruce Schneier on google and privacy:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/11/google_and_priv.html
* the word “google” has been added to the most of English dictionaries as verb, and it means searching the net using Google website!!
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