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la_vie_noire) wrote2010-03-30 03:49 am
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I just found this via Sociological Images
And watch it, because it's awesome:
Gwen, on Sociological Images says:
But seriously, Google's CEO responding,two three (it was on December, apparently) moths ago, to privacy concerns with "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place". Uhm. I'm ashamed to say I so didn't hear about that.
Gwen, on Sociological Images says:
t’s interesting given Google’s recent decision to stop censoring internet access in China due to concerns that human rights activists’ emails were being tracked, as well as accusations of privacy issues with Buzz. A friend and I were talking recently about how normally we’re concerned about corporate concentration and control, and yet we both have entirely enmeshed ourselves with Google–using gmail, storing things on Google Docs and Notebook, tracking websites through Google Reader, using YouTube, getting directions from Google Maps…basically my entire online life is routed through Google services (I tried Chrome but didn’t like it, but if I had, even my browser would have been a Google product).
We’re not sure what to make of this — that it’s easier to lull people into a sense of complacency about corporate control if you provide them really nifty stuff they like using? That we aren’t yet really taking concerns about internet privacy seriously? The way these services are set up, it’s simply easier to use all of them than to insist on using a cloud server, reader, email, and so on separately just so we wouldn’t be supporting the concentration of internet services, and this undoubtedly plays a role in reducing our resistance. And our reliance on Google slowly grew over time so that neither of us really noticed how much we used the company’s products until we were actively talking about it (which we were only doing because of the events in China).
But seriously, Google's CEO responding,
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WTFFFFF. Stay classy, Mr CEO.
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