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Originally Posted by Letum
Hmmmm.....some one should write a tool for you that makes a few thousand
intelligently random google searches each day to ensure google knows nothing about
you.
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Once you get refused a job because your intended employer bought data about your internet habits he did not welcome, or once an insurance company rejects you a contract becasue of data patterns sold to them by Google, you will not make jokes anymore, promised. Once their database got hacked and your data ends in hands of people in the twilight zone of laws, you are a victim. Or better: you have made yourself a victim.
Data is knoweldge. Knowledge is a trade item, as well as power. Google'S datapool is monitored or counter-checked by - nobody. That will make them more powerful then law enforcement agencies, sooner or later, and in a way they already are. The police is regulated and has limits regarding what it may do with their (limited) data on you, so are governmental offices and services. Google has not, and can gain, use and sell data without anybody looking over their shoulder. It is a yelling violation to the principle of checks-and-balances that even governments are expected to submit to.