Saturday, 13 February 2010

Big Brother Google

Every time you search something on the internet you leave a trace, a road map of all the sites you visit, your preferences, personal information and data that you don't want other people to know. Google is the main search engine for the job and it is quite frightening to think that a single company holds the data of million of internet users! They own gmail, youtube, chrome, blogger, android, google maps, google talk and many more software companies that easily collect personal information from all of us. That means that if they want they can read our emails, see the videos we are watching, track the sites we visit, locate us through satelites and gps, even use our mobile phones to gather personal information in order to sell more targeted advertisment or sell our data to other companies! Isn't that Scary???

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Actually it would be if there wasn't respect and laws. I beleive it is forbidden to use any of our personal information without us knowing and if they do we can sue them. Thus they do not dare to do that. In fact , google is indeed an incredibly huge company who can mess up the internet for good. Most certain though , is that this is never going to happen , because having this company the ammount of money they earn is more than enough. In addition to the things i mentioned and what people generally believe , google is trying to help us navigate easier in internet and is not trying to mislead us into stealing our private information.

>>> Vogiatzakis Sokratis CPE3 <<<

Anonymous said...

I think that we need to control the movements of each user.As a result,to maintain the safety of other users.First of alla we have to secure the access to certain websites...It is wrong children be placed on a site which is unsuitable for their age.Some things must be monitored!Although,it is not right google to use personal files and data that we want to be secret,without our awareness and our permission...
Eleni-Angelika
FCE 1
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Anonymous said...

WELL THE WAY YOU SEE IT, IT SEEMS VERY SCARY AND TERRIFYING, BUT I HAVE TO AGREE WITH SOCRATIS. GOOGLE IS MAKING OUR LIVES EASIER. IT IS PROBABLY THE QUICKEST(IF WE CAN SAY THAT) WAY OF GETTING INFORMED. AS A PUPIL I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT GOOGLE IS A VERY USEFUL GADGET IN MY HANDS. THROUGH IT I CAN DO SUCCESFULLY ANY PROJECT THAT I AM ASKED TO DO, I CAN SEARCH FOR ANYTHING I WANT TO AND COMMUNICATE A LOT. IN ADDITION TO WHAT I'VE MANTIONED BEFORE ALL THESE APPLICATIONS ARE FREE OF CHARGE. OF COURSE OUR PERSONAL DATA AND INFORMATION ARE USED TO SEND US SPAM MESSANGES BUT THAT'S ALL AND AS MY CLASSMATE SAID BEFORE THEY ARE DEALING WITH A GREAT AMOUNT OF MONEY TO DARE ABOUT US. WHAT THEY ALREADY HAVE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH. FINALLY ALL THOSE TRACKS THAT WE ARE LEAVING BEHIND ARE ENDING UP BEING MORE THAN USEFUL TO POLICE WHEN SOMETHING DISGRACEFUL HAPPENS. SO THERE ARE PROS AND CONS TO ANY MATTER AND WE HAVE TO CONSIDER BOTH SIDES.
JOANNA TZAGARAKI PROF3

Anonymous said...

It is very very good!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is video is very funny for children ang adults.safety is first for google. i agree that there is a problem in the internet...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maria-eleni Angela
C class