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I disagree with this comment: "are you afraid Google is sitting at home drooling over the fact that you bought your shoes from JcPenny?" I'm sure Google doesn'
by bryanh 15y ago
I disagree with this comment: "are you afraid Google is sitting at home drooling over the fact that you bought your shoes from JcPenny?"
I'm sure Google doesn't consciously care, but the fact that they track it it can seriously screw you if in the wrong hands. Further, at risk of building a strawman, it sounds a bit to similar to "what do you have to hide?" which is wrong on many many levels.
Given plenty of data it would be easy to cherry pick information useful enough to cast some serious suspicion of a crime. People have been convicted on circumstantial evidence alone. Is it really the lay person's responsibility to worry about this?
A silly example: "Where were you at 9:35pm the 3rd of June, 2011?" ... "I was having dinner and drinks with friends" ... "Really? According to documents obtained by the prosecution you bought shoes that night online at 9:29pm from JCPenney" ... "Oh, I guess I left earlier than I thought" ... "Court, clearly the defendant is lying about his whereabouts".
/paranoia
- sfgfdhgfdshdhhd 15y ago"the fact that they track it it can seriously screw you if in the wrong hand" exactly. the whole darned point is that I care more about my personal information than Google does. It matters little whether they are actively drooling over our personal details, or passively collecting them. The fact that Google might be permanently storing cross-references between your searches for "herpes medication" and "communist party" with your emails to grandma and job applications... I dunno, might give you just a little pause for thought.