[mythtv-users] OT: Google - big brother? or I going mad?

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Tue Sep 14 11:47:57 UTC 2010


On 14 September 2010 12:30, Damian <myth at surr.co.uk> wrote:
>  Hello all,
>
> Excuse the off topic post, but this has long been one of the best most
> informed places to ask linux/open source type questions and I'd be
> interested to read your thoughts on this issue that really bothers me.
>
> I'm really not comfortable with the 'big brother' presence of google. I
> think that they produce incredibly good products, but they are all designed
> to scrape every last piece of personal information out of the user. They are
> getting a bigger and bigger presence in the Linux/Open source world, and no
> one seems to mind which makes me question if I'm just being paranoid and
> everything is fine.
>
> If you read a Linux magazine, it's often get many articles about privacy and
> security and keeping your system safe. Yet these same magazines discuss
> gmail, Android, google calendar and picassa without any mention of privacy
> and security. The files that are being put through googles servers and
> scanned for content to advertise back at us is the very content that we're
> trying to keep private on our machines.
>
> Is it just me that finds this uncomfortable?
>
> I'm not trying to be a smart arse. I'm genuinely wondering if it's all fine
> and I should just start using all of these google products. They certainly
> make life easier. They work so well that it's hard not to use them!
> Personally, I think they make their products the best of the best so that
> everyone willingly gives them all of the personal data that they want, but
> I've not heard many say similar. I have friends who are more geeky than me
> and discuss privacy and politics stronger than me, but they are all using
> their android phones and connecting it to their gmail, google calendar etc
> etc accounts and just can't see where I'm coming from.
>
> Basically, I'm not trying to preach the google is bad. They just make me
> feel very uncomfortable but I'm doubting myself. What are your thoughts?
>
> Thanks
> D
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

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