Posted by: Fester

I’ve been trying to say it here all along, maybe with too much emotion and not enough intelligence (I had to search Google to know how to spell ‘intelligence’), but I think the picture I’ve been trying to paint here is without a doubt best expressed by eurotrash at a recent post over at ThreadWatch (sad to se you go Nick!)…

In fact, the post by eurotrash is so good, I’m going to be a complete ass and post the whole thing here - I don’t want it to loose it’s effect. Here’s a link to the entire thread entitled Big Google Becomes Big Target
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Here is the most incisive, succinct post EVER on what the negative potentialities of GOOGLE are…

‘My tuppence’
As I said to Matt in Vegas, what happens 20 years down the line if the United States gets a president who makes George Bush look like an utter left wing loonie and his crew get into power. The Dept of Homeland Security officer comes in with a piece of legal paper in his hand and says, “We’re taking all that data for something we are working on and this subpoena says we can!”
It worries me that although the nice left wing engineers, Mr. Brin, Mr. Page and of course the good Mr. Cutts will do everything they can to stop the officers getting the data but they won’t be able to do much.
I went through a dodgy time in a past life when an extremely dodgy, fat, stinking, lying, theiving bastard of a newspaper owner spent all his employees pension money and when the fucker disappeared off the edge of a yacht in the Atlantic so did the pensions of not only the current serving employees but also the retired employees who needed this money to live.
I was one of the lucky 12 people who were based in Amsterdam and there was a Dutch Law which said that our pension money couldn’t be put in with all the other pension money in the UK, US and Australia so my money was saved.
I think the moral of that story is that it is really up to governments to start speaking up and making better laws to start saving their citizens data and I think that it is down to governments to start asking questions about this now.
Matt, you asked what are Google doing that the others aren’t doing. First is the 2038 cookie. Why and what reason - why should you keep data on what my mother does on Google after she dies - if she doesn’t come back in a year, she probably won’t be coming?
eurotrash

Thanks eurotrash, would you like to offer some more intelligent insights here at IsGoogleEvil?com - we’d love to have you - we could use you.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 26th, 2006 at 12:35 am and is filed under Google the Good, Google the Bad, Google the Ugly, Getting Ranked on Google, Advertising on Google, Google Profits, Google Rules.