[HacktionLab] Take action, with Google?!

[sam at bristolwireless.net]

>
> Be interesting to hear where people stand with regards to Google and any
> reasons for/against using their products & services. I make no secret of
> using Google services since Gmail beta 10 years ago,

I also confess to using some Google services, particularly search  
since the demise of Scroogle.

I'm not so worried about what the data is used for this year or next  
year, but how that data will be used in five or ten years concerns me.


Google motto 2004: Don't be evil
Google motto 2010: Evil is tricky to define
Google motto 2013: We make military robots
Google motto 2019: We control dystopian concentration camps?

Well illustrated by the classic Cory Doctorow essay:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html

2p

Sam




use an Android phone
> (albeit running CycnogenMod) and numerous other of their products. I'm not
> paranoid. 1000's of highly intelligent and well respected tech people use
> Google/Android, do I know soemthing they don't?
>
> If I need secure to make communications anonymously, I wouldn't use their
> services. But with the spread of Android, the chances of Google knowing
> about you are increasing all the time, whether you use them or not.
>
> So I ask, why/why not use Google?
>
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