Comments on: This Google Deal Feels Wrong

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 27 May 2007 08:21:48 +0000

I think google is getting too powerful that it’s really a web monopoly now. One cannot help but cringe at their level of data retention covering almost every move one makes on the net and it’s only a matter of time when all that data will end up in various government (and other) hands further making any notion of anonymity on the net no more than an illusion. Maybe we’re reaching the days of ‘minority report’ where based on what website you visited, one can predict what your next move will be. So I guess it’s the classic combo of further erosion of personal freedoms and significant decrease in crime or even potential crime. But that of course assuming this data ‘ONLY’ falls in hands of good willed government folks with aim to keep our societies safe. A major caveat…Many people at google can access this info and through them many associates, relatives, spouses, children,…And of course, these are not government folks. Or are they? Is this whole Google thing nothing but ‘Uncle Sam’ in disguise? Conspiracists…Let’s get the ball rolling

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:03:39 +0000

I can certainly see what Google were buying, they now dominate the entire space (feedreader, analytics, RSS stats, advertising). It’s a shame someone else didn’t snap them up. Hopefully G will bring some stability on the plus side, there have been many feedburner wobbles - take today for instance, according to my feed stats all my email subscribers went missing yesterday (over a 1000). At least Google have a decent data center

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