We all know the story Big brother. Is Google the stepping stone to Big Brother in our future?
I remember the UN using Google services and technolgy to understand the scope of conflicts in progress in Africa from time to time.
Nations are using and developing drone technology but Google has global access.
What do you lot think?
monkey skipper said:
We all know the story Big brother. Is Google the stepping stone to Big Brother in our future?I remember the UN using Google services and technolgy to understand the scope of conflicts in progress in Africa from time to time.
Nations are using and developing drone technology but Google has global access.
What do you lot think?
I don’t trust any company that can put software on my computer without my approval.
Especially if the company is American.
That said, Google is bloody amazing. In the early days I avoided using Google wherever possible so as not to overload their server. Now their servers are big enough to handle 100% of the world’s internet traffic if needed.
Google discontinued “Site Search” in April this year. Not so great. And they’ve stopped linking from their search page to their advanced search and to Google Scholar.
monkey skipper said:
We all know the story Big brother. Is Google the stepping stone to Big Brother in our future?I remember the UN using Google services and technolgy to understand the scope of conflicts in progress in Africa from time to time.
Nations are using and developing drone technology but Google has global access.
What do you lot think?
To some extent, but other things seem much more big-brotherish to me. Video surveillance all over the place and Facebook in particular.
The Rev Dodgson said:
monkey skipper said:
We all know the story Big brother. Is Google the stepping stone to Big Brother in our future?I remember the UN using Google services and technolgy to understand the scope of conflicts in progress in Africa from time to time.
Nations are using and developing drone technology but Google has global access.
What do you lot think?
To some extent, but other things seem much more big-brotherish to me. Video surveillance all over the place and Facebook in particular.
Ah, but Facebook is self generated, not government/big business generated.
buffy said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
monkey skipper said:
We all know the story Big brother. Is Google the stepping stone to Big Brother in our future?I remember the UN using Google services and technolgy to understand the scope of conflicts in progress in Africa from time to time.
Nations are using and developing drone technology but Google has global access.
What do you lot think?
To some extent, but other things seem much more big-brotherish to me. Video surveillance all over the place and Facebook in particular.
Ah, but Facebook is self generated, not government/big business generated.
That’s the whole point. Google can get into facebook and everyone shoves their life there anyway.
Maybe Google’s intentions start out as good and reasonable but the accumulation of money and information creates a Big Brother almost by accident. Too much power corrupts as they say especially as an organisation grows in size and no one can keep track of what it’s doing
If you have an Android phone and/or a gmail account, visit this link for something really scary: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
Android phones record your conversations without you knowing.
I prefer to use Goolag for my internet search engine
Divine Angel said:
If you have an Android phone and/or a gmail account, visit this link for something really scary: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivityAndroid phones record your conversations without you knowing.
Where does it say that?
Divine Angel said:
If you have an Android phone and/or a gmail account, visit this link for something really scary: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivityAndroid phones record your conversations without you knowing.
The phones ARE listening to you – ok google how do you think they keep tabs on dissenters and terrorists ?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
If you have an Android phone and/or a gmail account, visit this link for something really scary: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivityAndroid phones record your conversations without you knowing.
Where does it say that?
Left side
Activity controls -> Voice and Audio Activity
You can also see your location activity, YouTube likes, watches and feedback, and web activity
wookiemeister said:
Divine Angel said:
If you have an Android phone and/or a gmail account, visit this link for something really scary: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivityAndroid phones record your conversations without you knowing.
I’ve been near two people who were talking and the ansroid suddenly came alive ( with no prompting) ans started printing out on the screen what they were saying.The phones ARE listening to you – ok google how do you think they keep tabs on dissenters and terrorists ?
In Defence secure areas you are not allowed to take mobile phones or pagers etc, you leave them in little pigeonhole outside.
Divine Angel said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
If you have an Android phone and/or a gmail account, visit this link for something really scary: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivityAndroid phones record your conversations without you knowing.
Where does it say that?
Left side
Activity controls -> Voice and Audio ActivityYou can also see your location activity, YouTube likes, watches and feedback, and web activity
Mine doesn’t have that.
It does have the location activity, although some of it is wildly inaccurate.
The Rev Dodgson said:
although some of it is wildly inaccurate.
Red flag: you may have been hacked.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Mine doesn’t have that.
It does have the location activity, although some of it is wildly inaccurate.
Where “that” = voice and audio activity.
Divine Angel said:
The Rev Dodgson said:although some of it is wildly inaccurate.Red flag: you may have been hacked.
I doubt it. I just have the accurate location switched off except when I want to find my accurate location.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
The Rev Dodgson said:although some of it is wildly inaccurate.Red flag: you may have been hacked.
I doubt it. I just have the accurate location switched off except when I want to find my accurate location.
Facebook doesn’t ever know where I am. Oran Park today.
“Wildly inaccurate” may mean you were located in Nigeria lunching with a Prince who needed your bank details to access his lost inheritance.
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:Red flag: you may have been hacked.
I doubt it. I just have the accurate location switched off except when I want to find my accurate location.
Facebook doesn’t ever know where I am. Oran Park today.
You’d be better off asking here, we know roughly where you are and the ankle bracelet doesn’t let you go too far away.
ChrispenEvan said:
What are you doing there? I know the race track closed years ago.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:Red flag: you may have been hacked.
I doubt it. I just have the accurate location switched off except when I want to find my accurate location.
Facebook doesn’t ever know where I am. Oran Park today.
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:What are you doing there? I know the race track closed years ago.
The Rev Dodgson said:I doubt it. I just have the accurate location switched off except when I want to find my accurate location.
Facebook doesn’t ever know where I am. Oran Park today.
I’m not actually there, I am still in the SW of WA. Facebook gives me an update on my location every few days. they always get it wrong.
ChrispenEvan said:
Ah, I see.
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:What are you doing there? I know the race track closed years ago.Facebook doesn’t ever know where I am. Oran Park today.
I’m not actually there, I am still in the SW of WA. Facebook gives me an update on my location every few days. they always get it wrong.
It seems that most of my activity monitoring is turned off by default, the only thing in there is youtube videos…