The US Department of Google, Part 2

Solutions.

Money, and Power and Evil Intentions

It stands to follow that any company with Don’t Be Evil as its mantra was really all about being evil in the first place. No surprise: The one who claims to be the most pure often harbors the most illicit secrets.

From the beginning, Google has shown a complete lack of concern for individual privacy rights. Admitting that it now plans to aggregate all the information it has been collecting on us via google search, gmail, youtube, google docs, google+ — for revenue purposes (or worse), Google also has no plans to let us opt out of its scheme to track users universally across all platforms.

Eric Schmidt recently announced he is stepping down from Google’s day to day operations in April to focus on GOVERNMENT OUTREACH, allowing Larry Page to assume oversight of daily operations.  It can only get worse. Let’s recall the mindset that Schmidt has implanted in his employees, via a few of his most famously frightening quotes:

“With Street View, we drive by exactly once, so you can just move.”~ CNN interview.  (Schmidt also has said the best way to safeguard our privacy from his prying eyes is to change our names.)

“I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.” ~ Wall Street Journal interview.

“If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use Artificial Intelligence,” Schmidt said, “we can predict where you are going.” ~ Techonomy conference, Lake Tahoe.

“Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don’t have 14 photos of yourself on the Internet?”~ Techonomy.

“One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try to predict the stock market. And then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that. ” ~ Abu Dhabit Media Summit

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” ~CNBC interview.

If we don’t put a stop to this now, the words “civil liberties” will have no meaning. In a world now built on the web, Google will be in control. Schools are migrating to online education and homework, businesses conduct business over the internet, government relies on the web to deliver its services and interact with citizens. There is no getting around it. This is the biggest privacy threat of our times.

Google says that it is “too difficult” to allow people to opt in to their plan. Remember the Google cams driving down our streets? Imagine a Google with even more revenue allowing it the ability to further intrude intro our thoughts, actions and daily lives, seeking information.

I envision some kind of Public-Private Partnership will be how the feds will claim containment of the problem. What Uncle Sam couldn’t get done, Google did it for him.  Oh, that’s right.  For free.