Posted on 01/22/2014 8:43:31 PM PST by null and void
just another reason I am glad I don’t use Chrome
Thanks for the reminder. I’m hesitant to remove things because my wife’s smart phone has some programs here.
I was easily able to identify that the Google stuff was not needed on her phone & took it off.
Thanks
Voice recognition, both Google and Apple, occurs on their servers so you can bet they gather the data. This is an exploit of Google’s technology by web designers. They’ll close it because they don’t want others to have the data.
Same with Google Maps on smart phones. When you get directions, they know who you are (they know it’s your phone), where you are, and where you are going.
Same with Amazon Kindles. All your browsing activity goes through Amazon proxy servers and they collect it. It’s a data acquisition device and a point of sale system. Obviously they know your reading preferences.
The list goes on and on.
People are freely exchanging privacy for convenience, but most folks don’t know or don’t even care.
Government, education, intelligence, robotics, healthcare, automobiles, military weapons, weather, space, media, cellphones, banking, flying.You name it, Google is there cooking up a storm of business all over the planet.
Has there ever been a company that is so intertwined into the whole entire global economic fabric of society?
Has there ever been a company that has been able to, "legally," access so much information about so many people and so many businesses on a continuous basis?
Google Earth? Google Maps? Google everything.
So Bug? Yeah, that's it...
What do you call it?
bttt
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