Google, your BIG BROTHER, like it or NOT
The Goog
le Social Search program was recently launched, which translates in to a public social web of content that has special relevance to each person using the search engine of the web. It recognizes your social network, and when you search a topic on the web, it will automatically include search results from you social network and linking it to that specific topic. This really got me thinking about the matter of how much Google really knows about each of us. To be quite honest, I think Google knows more about you, than what your spouse or mother even knows, and frankly, that scares the living crap out of me.
I decided to look further into the matter, and what I found will have the hair on the back of your neck, stand on end. Most of us readily make ourselves available on the net, using all the different applications, social networks, and other stuff the internet has to offer. We unknowingly share our personal information just by using the internet, and other Google related applications. Google accurately tracks each visitor from a source, such as a search engine or email link, to conversations made over the web, to private transactions. They are able to source all your personal information; they know your name, telephone number, social security number, credit card numbers, your interests, and who your family members and friends are, the question is what they want to do with that information? As I see it, Google is in fact creating their own personal internet consisting of the user’s personal data, tracking your every move, updating the information on a daily basis. Is our personal information safe, even when it’s just stored as a data base?
It scares the living crap out of me that my personal information is accessible, where ever it is stored by Google in cyber space. My problem with that is that not every internet user is sitting there with the purest intentions at heart. In fact, scam artist are sitting out there, prowling the web, trying to access our personal information that Google has accumulated, in order to defraud both you and me. I’ve previously heard horror stories about people’s accounts being hacked, and fraudulent credit card transactions, though I didn’t take too much notice of it at the time. But seeing all this evidence in front of me, has really given me a wake-up call regarding Google and it’s “do no evil policy”.
Most of us can give detailed instructions on how to do internet banking, get a blog site up and running, use Skype, and use other applications the web has to offer, but how many of us can retract personal information on the web? My guess is that less than 10% of the internet users would know how to remove their personal information from the web, nor would they know how to go about to block people from searching their personal details. Scary isn’t it?
Where is it all going, and where is going to end if we don’t start waking up? I feel like that if we don’t do anything about the matter, we are truly going to find ourselves lost in a Big Brother horror film. Do you really want your neighbor to know that you have a birthmark on your left butt cheek, or live in a world where your every movement is recorded? I didn’t think so. Use this article to open your eyes, and today start protecting yourself against the hacking of your personal information.
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