According to the article that was posted on the Information-week website, it goes on to discuss how Google’s Privacy Change Provokes Outrage. A professor once told me that when you look on the side of Google or the side of your email everything is based off of information you have programmed or information you have sent to people via email or searches. This article goes on to discuss how Google can access everything you send form various different sites and create a profile based off the types of things you search and send.
This can obviously create enormous issues because when you send an email whether it be personal, emotional, or confidential, you do not want people to be able to access that type of information. Obviously when you use a search engine they are going to put together the best idea of what you are looking for, but why should anyone have the power to access personal information without asking or paying for it. This leads to privacy issues. How safe is anything online at all of companies are able to hack into emails and anything they please? What if all these cases of people still getting their identities stolen are from inside sources inside Google or other companies that can breach online emails and sources?
When people found out about Google’s change in privacy there was an enormous black label that was put over the Google symbol to make a point with the whole new thing they are starting to put in place. If people (Google) can hack into information, what says they cannot go on and change information? When does this become a matter of a federal issue, or when does it cross the line of it being illegal? Personally I am a user of the Google website, Gmail, search engine, research, and to think that everything I can do is sitting on someone’s database that I do not know scares me.
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