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Is Google Turning into Big Brother?

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/s...5727509&page=1

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While we're transfixed by the presidential election, in the world of high tech another duel between two well-funded, take-no-quarter candidates has just emerged ? and in the long run the impact on our daily lives may be nearly as great -- and perhaps even sinister.

As you probably heard, on Monday -- that is, on a national holiday, when business announcements are almost never made -- Google rolled out Chrome, its new Web browser.

Why the odd timing? Hard to say. Google surely knows that just about anything it does these days is going to cause a news frenzy -- and especially when it's announcing its first thrust into a huge new market.

So, perhaps it hoped to temper this coverage to a degree, and drag it out for several days. Or perhaps Google was unsure about the product itself, and didn't want to overhype it -- and then face a potential backlash. Or, maybe Google just didn't think Chrome was that important, saw a window between the two political conventions and rushed it out.

Google's official explanation is that the Labor Day release of Chrome was an accident, and the Terms of Use attached to that product were simply a cut-and-paste from other Google products. We will leave it to the reader to decide if these are viable explanations from a multi-billion company regarding one of its biggest new products in years -- and, if true, what it says about Google's competence in handling some of your most sensitive information.

Well, now that Chrome is out and being field-tested by reviewers, I think we can rule out the second and the third scenarios. That leaves the first. But why would a company that knows it has a solid and newsworthy product on its hands intentionally dampen media coverage of it?

The answer, I think, was that it was a long-term strategic decision to make Chrome look almost like an afterthought. And I think that decision was made at the highest levels of Google, perhaps by CEO Eric Schmidt.

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You just figured that out? Look at anything Google brings out...its to collect information. 10 years from now they will be the single biggest information source on this planet where they know everything about everyone. Smart guys...they had this all planned out from the beginning starting with a simple browser without ads to pull the first people.

I, for one, welcome our new browser overlords?

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Cock (Post 14716786)

Are you asking me, or the writer? :winkwink:

Their browser doesn't send them anything of importance. The fact that it's open source makes all of these big brother claims from everyone pretty silly.

Google 20 years from now:

http://b.imagehost.org/0319/t2wi3.jpg

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Originally Posted by dready (Post 14716806)

Are you asking me, or the writer? :winkwink:

You typed this didnt you?

Is Google Turning into Big Brother?

google was setup by the CIA in the beginning..

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Originally Posted by kandah (Post 14716839)

google was setup by the CIA in the beginning..

CIA = Criminally Insane Assholes:warning

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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Cock (Post 14716838)

You typed this didnt you?

Is Google Turning into Big Brother?

No, I didn't just figure it out. There have been other examples for years. I did however think it was an interesting and thought provoking commentary that others might appreciate.

i was expecting this thread to be dated 3-4 years ago

to late, they already are

where's the complete opensource coding to chrome? i have yet to see the complete opensource coding to the so called opensource chrome

Skynet has started gathering data from all over the world......not easily available info but personal data !! Ohh the horror! .. Where is Schwarzenegger during this time of need!

Turning into?

Google has been going down this path for many years.

Google knwo every move :)

Moving offices onto the NASA Ames facility is a clue.

You're transfixed by the election????

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Originally Posted by acctman (Post 14717480)

where's the complete opensource coding to chrome? i have yet to see the complete opensource coding to the so called opensource chrome

Apple actually pioneered this with Safari; they stole KHTML from KDE to make WebKit, with the promise it would be re-released to the KDE team. As long as it was in beta, and unstable, they did not, and were not required to make any commits.

Long story short: Apple helped make the browser pass the acid test, but the code was (then) so hacky that the KHTML team basically dumped it.

Facebook : CIA, venture capital.
MySpace : FBI, security consulting.
Microsoft : NSA, security consulting.
Google : ?

no they are not turning into Big Brother, THEY ARE allready

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Originally Posted by xmas13 (Post 14718092)

Facebook : CIA, venture capital.
MySpace : FBI, security consulting.
Microsoft : NSA, security consulting.
Google : ?

hmmmmmmmm

google = skynet.

watch.

Its turning into big sister