If it's going to happen I'd rather it be more public than out-of-sight out-of-mind so to speak.
Yeah, me too (I think)....being that ignorance is supposedly not bliss! But then that could depend on whom or what the ignorance pertains to, whether you wanted to know something in particular about certain somebody's or not
Trouble is, the more information we acquire, the more we seem to want...and this is the evil which has become the Google in all of us, so to speak.
Think I missed the TV expose on Google (cos I rarely watch TV and these days and am too tight fisted to purchase a TV guide to find out when things are on or not) but I do recall one of the previews detailing some frightening aspects that should be of concern to everyone...
According to the preview: Google data mines from every publicly available site/web page on the internet in order to provide such wide & varied search results. The warning in this is that if you don't want Google to mine/display any information about you, personal, sensitive or otherwise, you simply do not make it publicly available on the internet in the first place. You do so at your own risk, and should Google link to such information about you, Google will tell you it is the responsibility of the host site to remove it. However, it was said, if said site does not comply, best not to hold your breath for Google to remove the links from their search engine or data banks.
So with this mined data and the data provided by personal web searches, Google knows as much about us as we know ourselves, if not more....just pisses me off that they know I'm left-handed & which one I use to wipe....
I mean, I wanted to keep that purely personal.
They say knowledge is power, and that has never been truer than now, with the advent of Google. It's all well and good to say "I have nothing to hide" but it all depends on who's got access to what information about whom. I know I'm innocent, but a Google search places me as being the only left-handed person in the vicinity of the crime at that precise time.....and the conclusive piece of evidence which could convict me is the small particle of
S monogrammed toilet paper, which according to Google is peculiar to the victim, and was found under my left index finger nail post-crime. It doesn't matter that my initial is also S, and I too have monogrammed toilet paper, handkerchiefs, socks and (non) smoking jackets. That's just an unfortunate coincidence and will not stand up in court.
I rest my case.
