[ Posted: Thursday, October 26th, 2006 at 3:14 am ][ Category: Current Events, Law. ][ RSS Feed ][ Comment ][ trackback ][ ]
Imagine the power gained, if a government had total access to the data harnassed within Google. Complete knowledge of buying trends, thoughts, questions and the people behind them. Big Brother would truelly be watching you.
Yahoo, AOL & MSN each gave the US Government access to their internal data… which is even more appaulling, considering that they are in much better positions to monitor behavior patterns. Email, instant messengers, personals, autos, finance, real estate; all on the 1st page of every Internet users browser. The portals are the front doors to the Internet.
I’m not saying the government is savy enough to know how to use this kind of data, but they are. The knowledge within the worlds most popular search engine is beyond comprehension. Fortunately Google has had the balls to standup to overreaching probes thus far.
Don’t trust that your data is secure. For the time being though, Google seems to be erring on the side of the people, so I say handle your business through them.
If you had access to the queries lurking within Google, what would you do with it?