Waddup with Google?
In recent years, Google has made unthinkable progress, accomplished more than any other internet megagiant has, to the extent that the word 'Google' has almost become synonymous with 'search', to the extent of the word 'Google' becoming a verb in everyday English.
Still, Google still hasn't learnt the art of privacy.
Google Maps - Google Maps is a masterpiece, truly fascinating and highly informative internet tool putting Wikimaps behind it. For one thing, Google Maps enables street views of places, making locating a restaurant as easy as clicking a button on your mouse. But here's the scary bit. Google Maps also provides aerial views of important and strategic locations, which means planning terror attacks can also be as easy as clicking a mouse button.
The White House
Gateway of India
Rashtrapati Bhavan
And sure enough, our former President, Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam expressed his concerns and requests to Google, but with no response, and ofcourse he was'nt the only one. If Google had ignored the pleas of the American government itself, what good are our protests?
Screw Google! And the street view thing could also be scary - in terms of privacy - I mean, they update these photos every month or so, with cameras fixed on top of cars. And these photos include several embarassing photos of people who do not wish to be seen in those situations. I mean, who, with a perfectly functioning cerebrellum, would want to be seen in..., and coming out of a ... and ... and so on..
Yeah this is what I mean.. Google has started its candid car in Australia and you might notice the shop behind it, the many privacy breaking photos of Google include several men going inside one of those.. Social networking websites are flooding with Google's photos of couples kissing, people going into one of those stores, an obvious and failed theft etc.
Still, Google still hasn't learnt the art of privacy.
Google Maps - Google Maps is a masterpiece, truly fascinating and highly informative internet tool putting Wikimaps behind it. For one thing, Google Maps enables street views of places, making locating a restaurant as easy as clicking a button on your mouse. But here's the scary bit. Google Maps also provides aerial views of important and strategic locations, which means planning terror attacks can also be as easy as clicking a mouse button.
The White House
Gateway of India
Rashtrapati BhavanAnd sure enough, our former President, Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam expressed his concerns and requests to Google, but with no response, and ofcourse he was'nt the only one. If Google had ignored the pleas of the American government itself, what good are our protests?
Screw Google! And the street view thing could also be scary - in terms of privacy - I mean, they update these photos every month or so, with cameras fixed on top of cars. And these photos include several embarassing photos of people who do not wish to be seen in those situations. I mean, who, with a perfectly functioning cerebrellum, would want to be seen in..., and coming out of a ... and ... and so on..
Yeah this is what I mean.. Google has started its candid car in Australia and you might notice the shop behind it, the many privacy breaking photos of Google include several men going inside one of those.. Social networking websites are flooding with Google's photos of couples kissing, people going into one of those stores, an obvious and failed theft etc.
