Google Deep Blue Sea

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Letum

I thought you didn't like google SB?

That is true, I avoid using Google Search as best as possible and warn everybody of using Google's Chrome (which has earned the strongest security warning of the German police any software ever has received, with the exception of virusses, trojans and worms, but in a way Google is more dangerous than the usual malware trying to rob your banking account or to terrorise your hardware). I only use completely uncritical terms for searching via Google, that could never compromise me at any imaginable opportunity or allow conclusions about my behavior, interests, etc (I avoid repeated searches on same issues as well, not to form a pattern they could conclude on). However, having repeatedly read about Google Earth, the smart guys say that Earth is one of the few programs by Google that does not spy and report about each and everything, but are relatively safe and uncritical to use.

Let's stick to the user's perspective here and leave out implications like the controversy about Street View or Google Health.

If there ever will be a total social surveillance being installed by Orwellian hardware, then becasue people did not care, and rated blinking lights and jingles as more important than their civil rights and their freedom.