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How to avoid Google Big Brother watching you

Posted by elitethinker • 5/13/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: big brother, google, Privacy

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Look who control Google ... Bush / CIA Gangs
www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html

Keyhole, Inc. was supported with funds from the CIA. They developed a database of spy-in-the-sky images from all over the world. Google acquired Keyhole in 2004, and would like to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington.

Google records everything they can:
For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as "IP delivery based on geolocation."

Google is a privacy time bomb:
With 200 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved.

User Comments

5/13/09

intarso

dammit; they will know of my endless quest for free nude pictures of britney spears!

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1. 5/13/09
  
  Epicharis
  
  hahaha!
2. 5/29/09
  
  saxontheweb
  
  A guy who was stalking Britney, managed get into her house with a video camera.
  He got some rare footage of Britney Spears clothes on.
5/13/09

MadameX

This was a clear risk the moment we connected to the internet, and probably won't come as a big surprise to most people. For most, I think it's a conscious compromise in the name of convenience (though perhaps few would admit that)

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5/13/09

harveyavatar

In the footsteps of other major technological firms, why does Google open two research centers in Israel, where they could have done so at a quarter of the cost in a country like India?

blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-06-04-n67.html

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5/29/09

Mortira

This statement may be opening up a huge can of worms, but : I believe this to be the nature of the beast. The internet is what it is. It's very unlikely that we would be able to protect everyone's privacy AND continue to use the internet with as much freedom as we enjoy now.

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5/31/09

harveyavatar

Google like Goldman Sachs?

Google Inc.’s head of global public policy, Andrew McLaughlin, is leaving the company to become deputy chief technology officer for the Obama administration, a person familiar with the matter said.

www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aZpelyNMdMS8&refer=home

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6/22/09

harveyavatar

Google founders' mentor found dead in swimming pool

www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/07/rajeev-motwani-dead-google-swimmi...

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