Not to be too dramatic...but have ya thought recently about how many pieces of you that Google currently owns...?
If you have a Blogger blog... ....yes that is owned by Google as of 2003.
If you have Google Home" as the home control system in your home.......you have basically given the keys to your entire home life to Google.
If you store your photos in Google Photos.....snap on.
If you do all your daily searches online using Google's search engine.... search on. ( who searches better than Google?) Btw.....do you remember when we DIDN'T get requests to "sign-in" to do a search in a Google search engine? It wasn't that long ago.
If you write and store your documents in Google Docs.......write on.
If you plan to buy a Google Pixel camera phone....again....snap on and chat on.
If you use Google maps....they know where you want to go and how and when you got there.
How many of my electronics use Google's Android Mobile Operating System ? Even if my phone is not a Google Pixel phone...it can still be "controlled and/or monitored" by Google if it has an Android operating system within it. ( some Samsung, Sony and LG phones do)
Google's expansion into our lives is not limited greatly by the general population because most of us simply do not have the knowledge or desire to stop it. We aren't plotting to "De-Google" our lives. We aren't trying to prevent Google from gathering unlimited data about every single aspect of our lives. We aren't really afraid of Google.....yet. We haven't started forming "Google recovery support groups".
Do we care? Hmmm..... sometimes. Should we care....Hmmm...I still don't know.
Remember that phrase about "Absolute power corrupts.....absolutely"? If Google has as much social and technological power as I feel they do.....what are they doing with that power? Is that power going to be used to bless humanity or simply to profit from it? Will the folks who control Google's corporate future be able to resist the temptation to manipulate humanity?
Maybe Google itself has not yet come into a full "self consciousness" about the "absolute" power it holds in it's smart little hands. Perhaps Google is an "accidental" power drone? May I still please stay naive? I prefer the peace of ignorance. I really do.
Maybe once we review and add a few more "Googlified platforms" to the list from the beginning of this post...maybe we will start to feel a little woozy..... a little weak in the knees perhaps.
End point.
I know that certain levels of privacy (thanks in part to common courtesy) that we once took for granted, are gone forever ....never to return.
But are there some ways that we just really SHOULD be a wee bit more proactive in keeping some of "who we are and what we do" away from Google's all seeing EYE?
Would it make sense for me to simply start blogging in a non-Google blog hosting service?
Hmmm....maybe I could start using the same blogging site that Seth Godin uses...Typepad.
Would it make sense for me to limit the photos I store in Google Photos ? Maybe.
Should I stop using Google Chrome as my web browser? Am I willing to use a slower browser?
Am I willing to give up my searches in Google to start using Bing ( oh the horror)
Time will tell. But I would encourage you to join me....in my quest to at least attempt to
balance the data imbalance.....Try to find out a little more about Google. Find out where she hides. Find out what she/he is doing with your data....and where and how it is storing it and selling it.
Find out more about the decision makers at Google forming the strategies for "playing" with all that masterful data we have "sent"or permitted them to freely glean from us and our devices for decades. I want to know. I need to know.... and maybe you do too..
Still peaceful,
Carla.
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If you have a Blogger blog... ....yes that is owned by Google as of 2003.
If you have Google Home" as the home control system in your home.......you have basically given the keys to your entire home life to Google.
If you store your photos in Google Photos.....snap on.
If you do all your daily searches online using Google's search engine.... search on. ( who searches better than Google?) Btw.....do you remember when we DIDN'T get requests to "sign-in" to do a search in a Google search engine? It wasn't that long ago.
If you write and store your documents in Google Docs.......write on.
If you plan to buy a Google Pixel camera phone....again....snap on and chat on.
If you use Google maps....they know where you want to go and how and when you got there.
How many of my electronics use Google's Android Mobile Operating System ? Even if my phone is not a Google Pixel phone...it can still be "controlled and/or monitored" by Google if it has an Android operating system within it. ( some Samsung, Sony and LG phones do)
Google's expansion into our lives is not limited greatly by the general population because most of us simply do not have the knowledge or desire to stop it. We aren't plotting to "De-Google" our lives. We aren't trying to prevent Google from gathering unlimited data about every single aspect of our lives. We aren't really afraid of Google.....yet. We haven't started forming "Google recovery support groups".
Do we care? Hmmm..... sometimes. Should we care....Hmmm...I still don't know.
Remember that phrase about "Absolute power corrupts.....absolutely"? If Google has as much social and technological power as I feel they do.....what are they doing with that power? Is that power going to be used to bless humanity or simply to profit from it? Will the folks who control Google's corporate future be able to resist the temptation to manipulate humanity?
Maybe Google itself has not yet come into a full "self consciousness" about the "absolute" power it holds in it's smart little hands. Perhaps Google is an "accidental" power drone? May I still please stay naive? I prefer the peace of ignorance. I really do.
Maybe once we review and add a few more "Googlified platforms" to the list from the beginning of this post...maybe we will start to feel a little woozy..... a little weak in the knees perhaps.
I am little bit more pragmatic. I simply seek equality.
I want to know as much about Google as it knows about me.
End point.
I know that certain levels of privacy (thanks in part to common courtesy) that we once took for granted, are gone forever ....never to return.
But are there some ways that we just really SHOULD be a wee bit more proactive in keeping some of "who we are and what we do" away from Google's all seeing EYE?
Would it make sense for me to simply start blogging in a non-Google blog hosting service?
Hmmm....maybe I could start using the same blogging site that Seth Godin uses...Typepad.
Would it make sense for me to limit the photos I store in Google Photos ? Maybe.
Should I stop using Google Chrome as my web browser? Am I willing to use a slower browser?
Am I willing to give up my searches in Google to start using Bing ( oh the horror)
Time will tell. But I would encourage you to join me....in my quest to at least attempt to
balance the data imbalance.....Try to find out a little more about Google. Find out where she hides. Find out what she/he is doing with your data....and where and how it is storing it and selling it.
Find out more about the decision makers at Google forming the strategies for "playing" with all that masterful data we have "sent"or permitted them to freely glean from us and our devices for decades. I want to know. I need to know.... and maybe you do too..
Still peaceful,
Carla.
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