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Google is more dangerous than Facebook. In the later you usually have a persona you pretend to be. But Google knows you better than yourself. You can’t lie to G
by alecco 9y ago
Google is more dangerous than Facebook. In the later you usually have a persona you pretend to be. But Google knows you better than yourself. You can’t lie to Google. Is your teenage daughter pregnant? Do you have a disease that is socially rejected? Do you want to have an abortion? Are those pimples in your groin an STD? Are you secretly looking for another job? Google probably knows that before you do. And their business plan is making money out of that information.
And let’s never forget Eric Schmidt:
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"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place;"
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt told CNBC's Maria Bartiromo 12-7-09.
The "Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it;"
Said Google Chairman Eric Schmidt 10-1-10 per the Atlantic.
"Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are;"
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt told the 2010 Techonomy conference.
"We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about;"
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt 10-1-10 per the Atlantic.
"It's a future where you don't forget anything…"In this new future you're never lost...We will know your position down to the foot and down to the inch over time;"
Explained Google Chairman Eric Schmidt at TechCrunch, 9-28-10.
"No harm, no foul;"
Concerning Google's unauthorized collection of WiFi signals from tens of millions of homes in 33 countries over three years, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt told the Times of London in May 2010.
- chinathrow 9y agoSometimes I wonder what Schmidt is _really_ thinking when he's handing out these statements. "Dumb fucks" [1] as well? [1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y agoIf we really want to deal with Google's enormous power, we'll need to tackle the issue at both ends: political and technical. As for politics, it doesn't look like Google is going to be attacked the way it happened to FB - the CA affair was almost an accident. And Google knows better and will do everything to avoid accidents. The second issue is technological. The competing search engines are not there yet, although they're continuously improving. Google got where they are not only by text search, but also extending the search categories horizontally. The competing search engine would need some smart minds to come up with something extra, something genuinely useful that would make people flock there. Then there are all other parts of Google ecosystem that people depend on: Gmail, Adwords, Adsense, GA. And millions of Android devices. How to eradicate all that from our lives? It will take decades to complete - if we started now, that is.
- bluGill 9y agoUsing other search engines goes a long way to get them there - the more they are used the more advertising dollars they get (and the less google gets), which leads to dollars to invest. I find that duckduckgo is good enough for everything these days.
- millstone 9y agoAddendum to your creepy quote list: "I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next." from 8/10/10 WSJ interview.