Checking In - Google Location

Notitia:


Greetings, curious person. This video is a quick warning to bone up on certain technological happenings that Google/YouTube have undertaken. Let there be no mistake anymore: This is no longer YouTube; it is AdTube. Your content is very important to YouTube & they require your patronage and click-throughs, in addition to your undivided attention when location-specific advertisements are flashed on your screen during your YouTube experience.


Say hello to AdTube, say goodbye to online privacy as we currently know it.


Linkz (there's more, but feel free to find them by yourselves if interested):

- http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=179386&hl=en
- http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/19/google-location-alerts/
- http://blogs.computerworld.com/15559/google_buzz_and_you_thought_firefox_had_...
- http://www.youtube.com/user/googleanalytics
- http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/google-dashboard-googles-biggest-spy-unle...
- http://pleaserobme.com/


Also, check out my channel background for a screenshot of said Google Location. "Don't be evil"...sure.


Peace.

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[sweetdaddycoconut]

Hrmm. I don't see it as a bad thing per say. I mean, this feature is on my phone, and you can click accept or deny. But it usually works out to your advantage for your device to know where you are at.

My question to you is, why is this a privacy invasion? Do you think someone would actually pick you out of how ever many millions of people use the internet, and monitor your doings on the net?

Personally, Although I do some "bad" things on the net, I think its not enough to raise a flag.

[logicaust]

@sweetdaddycoconut

When you combine your location with stuff like Web History, Google Street View and linking of Google services, the picture becomes very clear: advertisers want far greater access to our personal information, down to our very locations. Currently it is opt-in, but what is to stop Google from full integration of this into its searches, to "provide us with a more tailored web experience"?

[logicaust]

Furthermore, this is another example of Google upping the ante on gray cyber law, possibly biasing opinions in favour of what it is doing, before its activities are even clearly defined by law (other examples being Google Code and Street View). You might also be aware about what's going on with Google Buzz at the moment; they are being slapped down by nearly every privacy czar imaginable & face court action.

[logicaust]

But more importantly, anonymity on the internet is impossible when aspects of that anonymity are taken. And there's also one unsettling question that just does not seem to go away: when Google wipes out data...does it *really* wipe it, or are backups of that data stored? It is technically feasible for them to do this, when one considers they have managed to backup the entirety of Usenet posts. Nobody has been able to verify whether this occurs or not. inb4 conspiracy theorist.

[logicaust]

All in all, it's a gimmicky feature; another necessary step of technology that was going to be made with the advent of GPS. Still, I don't want people to know what I am browsing, because privacy is a human right, and a right I'm not prepared to hand over. It might just be worth it to close down a few of my Google services and start using hakia more regularly.

Peace C.

[sweetdaddycoconut]

@sweetdaddycoconut Oh man, I'm still logged into this account. XD