RE: Google PlaNET
February 26, 2016 at 10:19 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm by scoobysnack.)
(February 26, 2016 at 9:38 pm)abaris Wrote: I don't need you to tell me that Big Brother has become a reality. But I consider Edward Snowden more of an authority on that matter.
And what you fail to understand is that google, facebook, twitter and all the others, are giant marketing profile generators. That's their main purpose, not some government conspiracy. Sure, they're working with the US services, since they want to continue making a dime, but their main purpose is to make money by exploiting the stupidity of people uploading their whole lives to the internet.
Sure I agree big brother should be well known by now. Thing is for a while even though it existed even a decade ago it was just a conspiracy theory. Now people acknowledge it, and say they don't care, when before they said it was a lie. Never will people want to say a conspiracy is real, even though it's happening all around them. Yes, tech companies are data mining people to direct relevant advertising to, but that's not all they are doing. They are creating profiles, and on top of that, the intelligence agencies have access to the data as well, to an extent, and even that is growing. You are severly underestimating how useful your information is, and like most people, just don't care.
Advertising firms used to pay big money to get information on people, now people just give it up for free. Back when loyalty cards started, it was just a way to track customer buying habits, and they gave you a discount to enroll because it was cheaper than data mining. We could be charging them for our information and interests, but no one cares any more. Isn't that a bit strange that people used to care about privacy, and now things have changed and they welcome it. What happened?
For me who has researched it for 15 years and was called a paranoid person that the government would want your information, to now everyone accepting that happens without a care in the world is very strange to me. The real question is why does everyone love big brother, or do they realise they can't fight it so they have given up, and are now just enjoying the convenience of free apps that spy on you?
