As Google Grows, How Much Does It Know About You?

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBNSCBL9BE.html

NEW YORK (AP) - Google is at once a powerful search engine and a growing e-mail provider. It runs a blogging service, makes software to speed Web traffic and has ambitions to become a digital library. And it is developing a payments service.

Although many Internet users eagerly await each new technology from Google Inc., its rapid expansion is also prompting concerns that the company may know too much: what you read, where you surf and travel, whom you write.

"This is a lot of personal information in a single basket," said Chris Hoofnagle, senior counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "Google is becoming one of the largest privacy risks on the Internet."

Not that Hoofnagle is suggesting that Google has strayed from its mantra of making money "without doing evil."

Any more when I need to give someone my address I just tell them to Google my phone number. Its all there. Right at the top. Try yours some time.

[electron_blue]

1. Yeah, scary, huh? I had google remove my phone number

They'll do it if you ask.

[underthedome]

2. Do No Evil, googles motto. nm

nm

[Paranoid Pessimist]

3. It's not just Google -- Wake up

I hope I'm wrong, but ...

Every time you go on the internet your online transaction is recorded and stored somewhere, and scanned for suspicious words or activities. When the Christian Conservatives take over completely, the enemies list will be right there with just a click of their mouse.

Fortunately, there are so many people online doing stuff they don't like that they would have to wall off all the blue states to build a concentration camp (re-education rehabilitation facility) big enough to hold all of us.

More likely, they'll just bar us from cyberspace, "access denied" for everyone who isn't one of them

[woodsprite]

4. Yeah, then they'll be able to email child porn

back and forth to eachother with no interference from us "liberals".

[OKthatsIT]

6. These evil Christians will be banished from mainstream

power....we'll force them to acknowedge their hypocracies and they'll shrivel up and die off.

[TomClash]

11. Hmm . . .

"Fortunately, there are so many people online doing stuff they don't like that they would have to wall off all the blue states to build a concentration camp (re-education rehabilitation facility) big enough to hold all of us."

Herr Rove, I have an assignment for you . . .

[rawtribe]

5. I only use Google search

and erase my cookies often.


:argh:

[hwmnbn]

7. or better yet use this

for google searches:

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm


or for yahoo searches:

http://www.scroogle.org/scraper7.html


You can read all about them and what they do:

http://www.scroogle.org/gscrape.html

[rawtribe]

14. Thanks, Bookmarked n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Drown them in information

there is so much info and so much of it is crap. Do you really want to know how many sites I looked up bedroom furniture in last month?

I made a decision when I started posting my opinions on line, that quite frankly I didn't give a damn.

[Toucano]

9. Tried mine.

Got nothing. Excellent!

[uppityperson]

10. Mine shows up 5 times, all election protest and peace things.

Good. Places I am proud of having it listed.

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. Here's a take on the future of Google and the media

http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

You're about to watch a future history of the media by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson, with music by Aaron McLeran.

If above link doesn't work try these:

http://www.lightover.com/epic/ols-master.html

or

http://www.lightover.com/epic/

there's also a link here with an update to the year 2015:
http://www.robinsloan.com/

[queerart]

13. Here Is The Search That Is Worrisome.......

It lists my Grandmother who passed away almost 8 years ago.....


http://zabasearch.com

[Dervill Crow]

16. That is just weird.

I'm listed at family members' addresses and once with my husband's DOB. They do have one correct listing for me, though, and that pisses me off.

[Patty Diana]

15. Here's the shrubs CARNIVORE list of words scanned for

http://www.rense.com/general66/scgh.htm