Comments on: Google Dashboard -- How Much Do They Know About You?

By: Freddy

Freddy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:38:10 +0000

they track every site you visit from their search page. They keep more information on people, than the FBI does. They are the #1 security risk on the internet. They never ask you if it is ok to spy on you. I use OpenDNS and keep google blocked, to keep myself and family safe and private.

By: Mange

Mange — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:53:56 +0000

Not to much i hope

By: Tito

Tito — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:31:00 +0000

The truth is that google stores all the info you can imagine. Reasons? = $. They store what pages you visit, who do you know, what are your interests. I mean ive seen so many movies that it becomes scary sometimes to think about it. That way they can sell add so scaters receives scate adds while i receive mobile phones adds or technology adds. All this is an opinion since havent read about any proof buts pretty obvious. Any way there so many people in the world that ur info is never get in the middle of a millionary complot for sure haha.

By: Ignolex

Ignolex — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:20:42 +0000

@icebike You're probably right. But the point is made.

@Oboewan Thanks for the interpretation; I'm glad we're on the same page.

Look at the comment activity on this thread, by the way. Looks like not that many people fall for this Google scare after all.

By: Oboewan

Oboewan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:51:33 +0000

I'll translate Ignolex: The basic theory of people who say all this is evil is: 1. You do stuff. 2. Google collects stats on you. 3. ??? 4. Orwellian dystopia where Google is the supreme dictator of the universe. (In the South Park episode Ignolex was referring to, instead of this, there was the word "profit." That's where the meme came from.) The point is, how exactly is all this going to matter in the long run? What exactly goes in step three?

By: icebike

icebike — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:38:52 +0000

@Ignolex:

remember the Tweek episode of South Park,

When you start a post with something like that you have to expect that 99% of the potential readers tuned out immediately.

Seriously, citing a cartoon is never instructive of real life.

By: mark

mark — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:55:14 +0000

Who cares what they know? Are YOU (figurative) so important that Google would be interested in YOUR info?

By: fastlane

fastlane — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:15:01 +0000

Most likely, not much more than I know about them... which is nothing. Never heard of it.

By: Ignolex

Ignolex — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:41:00 +0000

Don't want to seem trivial here, but remember the Tweek episode of South Park, the one with the business scheme underpants--profit? In other words, no clear path between having a lot of underpants and turning profit.

I've read similar article to the above at Precentral.com. People there are also a bit concerned about how much private information is collected by Google. But neither here nor there I was provided with a clear connection between the 'Google knows too much' and the 'Orwellian anti-utopia that is sure to materialize if we don't keep Google in check' (props to the guy with the first comment).

How about this: if you know something, please tell us. Straight up. Enlighten us about what's going on. Don't just try to ring a distant bell in our heads. Otherwise you just seem like somebody who's desperately defend a platform.

Best regards

By: Republicans = Douchbags.

Republicans = Douchbags. — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:44:33 +0000

@jersagfast

Not big brother if you give them the info.

By: Icebike

Icebike — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:36:33 +0000

A lot less there than I imagined.

By: Fahqbich

Fahqbich — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:38:33 +0000

I just wish that I could have a google voice and wave app for this d&$m iPhone.

By: Jersagfast

Jersagfast — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:57:13 +0000

Oh Big Brother.. :/