Google — online host to the world
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Google frightens the hell out of me.
It’s just announced its Google Sites is now open to any registered user.
Previously it was only for, “companies and organizations that wanted to use the service on their own domains,” says the Google blog.
“Now we’ve made it easy for anyone to set up a website to share all types of information,” says the company, “team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, you name it - in one place, for a few people, a group or the world. You can securely host your own website … and add as many pages as you like for free.”
To me, this is one of the most frightening of Google’s many and various ways of gaining control of who does what online, at the same time scarfing up absolutely priceless personal information which, under different guises, ultimately find its way back to Google’s clients and to any entity which has what Google, in its wisdom, decides (or can be convinced) has a legal call on the data.
A few people. A group. The world ……..
Google recently announced it wants to become a repository for health information —- your or health information.
In July last year, it officially launched a health advertising blog with Michael Moore’s Sicko in the back-ground.
“Moore’s film portrays the [health care] industry as money and marketing driven, and fails to show healthcare’s interest in patient well-being and care,” said Google.
Without wishing to be overly cynical, the health care industry has as much genuine interest in patient well-being and care as Google does in the privacy of its users.
Through Gmail and Gchat, Larry, Sergei and Eric have a direct line on everyone you’re in touch with.
Google owns YouTube, through which a significant portion of the online world gets its video jollies and not-jollies, Feedburner, possibly the most used news feed management application, and Blogger, one of the largest blogging platforms.
And more. A lot more.
It even has a Public Policy unit through which it seeks ” to do public policy advocacy in a Googley way“.
If that doesn’t scare you, nothing will.
And now it wants to become online host to everyone in the world, with all that implies.
And you thought Microsoft was dire?
Google frightens the hell out of me.
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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May 22nd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
this is a one step closer to new world order
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:16 am
Maybe this is a good thing.
I know, i know, i usually argue for privacy and free speech
but what if EVERYTHING is available?
what if there were no more privacy or secrecy period?
what if everything was transparent?
would that necesarily be a bad thing?
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:21 am
what if everything, every tiny piece of information was available to anyone? a global database?
would this not create a society of openess and unity?
Aqunias spoke of the mythical city on the hill…
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:53 am
yep ‘everyone’ except those deemed special [ politians, royalty] or those with enough money to pay somebody to hide their data.
sounds like a great ssystem to me
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:12 am
NO.
a true system of openess!
where anyone who even thinks of privacy is looked down upon!
What if such a thing where possible? what if no one could hide ANYTHING they had done?
crime rates would drop to fantastically low rates.
There would be no more government corruption because there would be no place to hide it.
But such a system would almost have to be worldwide to work. a world without countries or political groups.
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 am
But the Law came in that Sin might abound the more.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
And then we wake up