This probably comes as no great surprise these days...
I also have had personal experience with Google spying. I was developing new software and had it on a development server that, while not password protected, was buried deep down in a directory with a non-default index file name. I only used Google Chrome browser for development. A few weeks later I was doing a Google search and this unreleased project appeared in the top results.
Baffled, I presented the situation to a forum for developers. Many others said they had similar experiences.
Why are they doing this, IMO:
-- So they can index every page ever visited by mankind to give them a leg up on the competition.
-- So they can target advertising towards your perceived interests.
-- So they can analyze trends about what people are thinking, i.e. are they for or against this latest little war we have planned. (Remember in V for Vendetta when the government spy trucks would drive thru the neighborhoods spying on private conversations so they could analyze the public's mood)
-- So they can build a psychological profile of you as a person for reasons that we can only imagine. This allowed to go unchecked, and in the wrong hands, can lead us into a dystopian society.
To anyone who still says, "I don't care, I have nothing to hide," I say grow up. Even if you don't care about your own life, have some thought about your children and grandchildren and the kind of world in which they will grow up. Turn off the TV and vidgeo games and read a few history books.
I also have had personal experience with Google spying. I was developing new software and had it on a development server that, while not password protected, was buried deep down in a directory with a non-default index file name. I only used Google Chrome browser for development. A few weeks later I was doing a Google search and this unreleased project appeared in the top results.
Baffled, I presented the situation to a forum for developers. Many others said they had similar experiences.
Why are they doing this, IMO:
-- So they can index every page ever visited by mankind to give them a leg up on the competition.
-- So they can target advertising towards your perceived interests.
-- So they can analyze trends about what people are thinking, i.e. are they for or against this latest little war we have planned. (Remember in V for Vendetta when the government spy trucks would drive thru the neighborhoods spying on private conversations so they could analyze the public's mood)
-- So they can build a psychological profile of you as a person for reasons that we can only imagine. This allowed to go unchecked, and in the wrong hands, can lead us into a dystopian society.
To anyone who still says, "I don't care, I have nothing to hide," I say grow up. Even if you don't care about your own life, have some thought about your children and grandchildren and the kind of world in which they will grow up. Turn off the TV and vidgeo games and read a few history books.
