I don't thing Google is evil. Neither do I think they are benevolent. I think they are benign.
Their motivation is (as with any other commercial enterprise) to make money. I'm fine with that, but it's something that really must not be forgotten. All that being said, I don't think that Google will do anything bad with any info it collects on me, although I do find it rather disquieting that they can track me by my Android's movements. Hell, it's not in their best interests to piss off clients. No, what scares me is that they ~could~ do evil things with that info. Or more to the point if that information gets into the wrong hands it could be used for malevolent purposes. As well, the technology could easily get into "the wrong hands" and be mis-used. Lord knows there are plenty of hackers out there... Cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Tim Bray <[email protected]> Sent: January 25, 2012 1/25/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: When your motto is don't be evil, just maybe you are. FWIW, if you want to read the actual new policy, rather than the journo's take on it, it's pretty simple and short: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/preview/ If someone finds something in there that seems evil, I'd like to hear about it, and I could relay such a finding to where people who matter would read it. When you're thinking about Google, it's helpful to bear in mind that G is really driven by two business motivations: - Make your experience at G satisfactory so you'll come back again - Increase the probability that you'll care about the ads you get shown. It's not obvious to me that being evil would actually help achieve either of those things, and there's not much else that G really cares about. -T On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:42 AM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > *http://preview.tinyurl.com/7jn8rdj > > Makes me glad that pretty much the only Google service I use is Gmail. > > (I usually search through startpage). > > Nobody should ever send me any e-mail they don't expect the whole world to > eventually be able to read. > * > > -- > Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a > lengthily search. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
