Welcome to what Gilles Deleuze called " les sociétés de contrôle"
https://files.nyu.edu/dnm232/public/deleuze_postcript.pdf www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIus7lm_ZK0 BTW, as you can see, Youtube (also owned by Google) carries a message decoding it.. Ergo, "they don't care." "It's not you - just your information!" :-) Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <a...@acm.org> +1 (817) 271-9619 On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Mark Ballard <markjball...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Google is not transparent about it. > > It started doing this with Gmail too. It didn't ask my permission. It > didn't tell me what it was doing. If you click on a link from within > one of your own personal emails, it opens via a Google redirect. Yes, > Google already handles your mail. But you trust it not to pry. It > transpires that this trust was misplaced. Google already, apparenty, > serves adverts that match a content scan it has done of your personal > communications. The question is where you would draw the line. And > where Google has drawn the line. And whether you have any control over > where the line goes at all. > > So this is just the half of it. Google has also started using search > accounts, so when you log into Gmail it also logs you into search > automatically. Thus your Google searches are tracked, and your links > from Google searches are tracked, and a complete picture of your > online activity is linked to you Google account. > > Add this to the scans it has taken of your personal emails, and it's > demonstrated inclination to use your personal information in any way > that suits its own interests, then you have in my opinion a thuggish > intrusion of privacy. > > Google is behaving like a hoodlum with the run of the town. It has the > power and the resources to take people's personal data. It has decided > to use that power without any apparent regard for the personal space > of its customers. Who decides what my personal boundaries are? Google > does, apparenlty. > > I think it is instructive to imagine who Google thinks owns the > behavioural information it gleans from your personal emails, your > searches and your links from your searches and your mails. I would say > it is my own business. Google thinks it owns that information. > > Google never told me it was tracking my behaviour. It never told me > what it was doing with that data. It never asked my persmission. > > Perhaps Google doesn't keep the behavioural data it collects about > people. It might treat the information as momentary - as transient as > sand falling through its fingers - that it uses to sell advertising > for that moment alone. Well then it wouldn't need to link my searches > and browsing to my Google account, would it? But it does. > > Excuse me if this is common knowledge. Because it is news to me as a > mere, powerless internet user - or Google user, as it has become. > > But the only reason why Google would need to link your browsing and > searching to your Gmail account (and all the other behavioural and > personal data therein) is to assemble a fixed and growing body of > behavioural data about you as an individual. It constitutes a deep > psychological profile - a computer mirror of your self. This > information is what Google thinks it owns. This information that is > the very stuff of you - the very soul of you. Google thinks it owns > this information and that it can do what it likes with it. It is most > amusing to say, but it is very serious indeed - and really, it is > necessary to follow this line of reasoning to this point before > drawing the obvious metaphors: but Google owns your soul, man. > > This state of affairs has become so serious that people now assume > Google is already reading your personal communications, and that this > is normal. > > As Kyle said: "Google doesn't claim that nobody can read your content, > and it's fairly obvious even to casual users that Google can see what > you're discussing". > > Woah there, boy. Refer your sorry ass to the metaphor favoured by Sir > Tim Berner's Lee: when the Post Office handles my mail I work on the > assumption that it does not open my letters and read them, or snoop on > my chit-chat. This is called trust. I do not have that trust for > Google. I did nevertheless once have this trust. And it is true that I > invested this trust with Google. It is crucial to understand that > Google relied on my investing that trust with it in order to get my > business in the first place. Just like it relied on everyone's trust. > That is why it has the virtual monopoly it has on search. It's success > is a function of everyone's trust. I trusted Google not to scan my > personal mails for their content, nor to track my behaviour. It has > abused that trust. > > There is a very particular way in which people have accepted this > abuse as normal, Kyle. That is, they have not necessarily deemed it > acceptable. This is how abuses of power work. People think it's wrong > but they also think they can't do anything about it. So it just passes > for normal. Google violates your privacy because it can. You > consequently become like chump citizen of a totalitarian state. You > carry on under the oppressive knowledge that someone's notching up > every step, every turn, every word. In psychic terms, you become a > gimp. Your soul becomes a rag doll. What would Google do with it? Are > there limits? Do you even know? > > If your assumed trust was initially that Google would not read your > personal communications, and it abused that trust and snatched your > personal data, then what now of your assumption that it can be trusted > only to use that data in certain ways? > > You don't even know what Google does with your data, let alone what it > might. This state of affairs has crept up. It is creepy. Google is a > creepy, untrustworthy, totalitarian hoodlum who owns your soul. > > @markjballard > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? 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