I'm more comfortable with Google scanning my mails than the NSA or my government...
Google is just using it for ads, but the government can construct whatever paranoid stuff from my mails.
Google is just using it for ads, but the government can construct whatever paranoid stuff from my mails.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/governments-attack-clo...
"And now the government is trying to use standard contractual language to argue that any user of a cloud computing service has, at best, "severely limited" ownership rights in their property."
Both are bad. That said, I think the threat of civil liberties being taken away by companies like Facebook and Google is very understated and very underestimated.
And if I can give you a piece of my mind for a moment here, I am actually fine with someone sticking a hand in my rectum in isolated instances. I think I would actually be more bothered when Facebook decides to sell my private info to credit card companies and insurance companies and I end up paying more for insurance or whatever because of this.
Because betterunix was disagreeing with rayiner, who made the original comparison.
Google also can compile information about the sender or receiver of an email even if they are not on gmail. Can they retarget ads based on that information?
Do this experiment: make a sock Facebook account, communicate dozens of messages with keywords like "fat", "weight", "exercise", "weight loss", include similar keywords in your likes. Then sit back and watch... you'll be targeted with weight loss pills and all that.
But here's the kicker though... the weight loss pills they are advertising are almost always bad. They're scam businesses. The pills they're selling will almost certainly adversely affect your health. But they're going to penetrate the psyche of a person who's having weight issues, they know how to advertise their pills to them. People are going to buy those pills.
And yes, when the floodgates that are guarding medical information open up, it's going to be a mess. And it's going to have deleterious effects on our society.
One of our stupid government filters may think either me or my girlfriend is a terrorist because I wrote "bomb" and place me on a no-fly list. Has happened...
Look up Tuskehee siphylus or J Edgar Hoover or American Indian.
What do you think "radical" means? The word was invented to describe "people who aren't doing anything wrong (else they would be criminals or terrorists) but who the people government don't like .