How did this happen? It seems like yesterday I was scoffing at Google’s dastardly privacy policy, vowing to never, ever store my personal information with a company willing to give it out to just about any government agency, in whichever country, that asks.
Fast forward a couple years, and I have emails from all my domains forwarded to GMail. I keep everything important in Google Docs. My social and professional life is on Google Calendar. I get Adsense payments. And let’s face facts: there’s no rival to the free Google Analytics, which I have added to all my sites.
What does this mean? It means Google knows all my key ideas, where I’ve been, where I will be in the future, what sites I own and who visits them, who I correspond with and what I write, and, so I can legally get my precious AdSense cents, they have my social security number. I’m Google’s bitch, and there’s probably no getting out now.
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I find it rather interesting that we should Rail – pun intended – at what the laws of mathmmatics and physics have to “teach” us. Remember what dBase technology is created upon. One-to-many, Many-to-one and Many-to-Many?!?!? Are we that “individualistic”? I have to admit, one thing that Google does not teach is what “a unified field theory” was to the genius who was trying to answer this question when he died. If you get my meaning! The “laws of nature” have alot to teach us. And we have to be thankful that we are not in the vicinity when it decides to do so, oftem as not. I don’t know, just trying to answer to this post in an intelligent manner …
That was way too deep.