Google Privacy Policy: What it means for a Free Country
“Information is power, and Google has too much of it.”
Scott Cleland, author of “Search & Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google Inc.”, tells WOR the search engine giant has out stepped its boundaries and accountability needs to be taken.
This comes in the wake of Google’s announcement to expand their information gathering capacity.
Under their revised privacy policy, Google will aggregate 60 of its Web services under one single policy. When the same Google individual “signs on” to its multiple services, data can be easily cross streamed including information from its search page to Gmail to YouTube to Android smart phones.
Cleland says they know more information about every American than ever before, arguably more than what should be known about individuals in a free country.
He also mentions the recent Supreme Court decision that police couldn’t track people through GPS without a warrant. This is something Google, and other social Internet corporations, can get without a warrant.
“They literally know what everyone thinks, believes, wants, and is worried about so they can collect it and push advertising.” Cleveland also explains what is troublesome is the way this opens the availability to manipulate politics, claiming Google has too much power.
WOR host David Paterson told Cleland that a Google Spokesperson has accused him of working for their competitors and using this book as a means to tear Google down.
Cleland’s response, “It's a typical case of don’t like the message, shoot the messenger.”
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