<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">I have no problem with Google being a capitalist company. I support a free market system that has very few restrictions.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">What
concerns me is that man has figured out how to profile other men by
their actions. For instance Target says they can tell when a woman is
pregnant before she announces it to the world. They make this
assumption by the buying pattern of the woman. If Target can make an
accurate assumption with limited information, what can Google come to
know about us?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If this information was
only used for marketing, I would be OK with it. However the bigger
picture is that Google is probably working with the Government and
providing what should be private information.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Some people say "So What, What Do I Have to Hide?". That may be true
until they become a false positive and all hell breaks loose. <br><br clear="none">Case
in point. There is a rumor that a couple were both doing searches at
the same time. One was looking for backpacks. The other was looking
for pressure cookers. Rumor has it that in short order their house was
raided by a swat team.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Not so funny when you look at it through the eyes of a false positive.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">And
as far as giving permission, yes we do, however only in a limited way.
It is not like we can just decide to go off the grid. If we want to
maintain a certain lifestyle we must use modern technology.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">For
example. Recently the group I work with took on a Facebook project.
None of use had Facebook accounts. All three of us did not trust
Facebook and had deep privacy concerts when it came to Facebook. To
complete the project all three of us needed Facebook accounts. Not
something we really
wanted to do, however our livelihood had taken use to a point where we
had to embrace technology we probably would have never used. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">So yes we do give permission and yes in some cases we do so because we have no alternative.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">My
concern with Google is they will become so big and so powerful, which
they may already be, that they would easily be able to turn over our
docs that we put up onto the Google cloud and do so with impunity. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">I
like the concept of the Chromebook. Very convenient. You can go
anywhere and have access to your docs. You can even switch computers
and with very little configuration you are off and running again. You
can share docs and life is just so much better, until someone becomes a
false positive. <br clear="none"><div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div>------------------------<br>Keith Smith</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, December 30, 2013 5:45 PM, Nathan England <plug-discuss@nmecs.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none">I have a really hard time with people who get upset that Google is doing evil <br clear="none">things.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">1) They are a marketing company<br clear="none">2) We gave them permission<br clear="none"><br clear="none">People get upset that Google is watching all that they do on their Android <br
clear="none">phones... then use a Windows phone! Or go buy a cheap pre-paid flip phone. You <br clear="none">gave Google permission to track you and watch what you do.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I think it's funny. I'm now saying this is Keith's deal, I'm just ranting on a <br clear="none">point. Microsoft sells an operating system that I should be able to do what I <br clear="none">want with and feel safe, however, M$ is doing evil things with it. An NSA <br clear="none">back-door? I didn't give them permission for that!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Google watches what I do because they ultimately want to make my life better. <br clear="none">If they can find things I'm interested in and market them to me, so that I <br clear="none">purchase them, they have won because they made money, but I also won, because <br clear="none">I got something I wanted. (yeah yeah, evil capitalist agenda was to sell me <br clear="none">something I didn't know I
needed...blah)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Google is there to make money by watching what I do and sell me relevant <br clear="none">things. Microsoft is just evil. Trying to tell me with one hand that I am safe <br clear="none">from this that and the other, while tracking what I do and giving it to big <br clear="none">brother. Complete liars.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Linus had the right idea, when asked if the NSA approached him about Linux he <br clear="none">nodded yes and said "no". !!!<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yqt2873734238" id="yqtfd10087"><br clear="none">On Sunday, December 29, 2013 01:40:39 PM keith smith wrote:<br clear="none">> Thought this list might enjoy this article. One point that came to mind is<br clear="none">> Google is very big and tracks our activities. M$ is doing evil also,<br clear="none">> however we do not want Google to become the only player do we??<br
clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/12/29/heres-why-microsoft-is" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/12/29/heres-why-microsoft-is</a><br clear="none">> -worried-about-google-chromebooks/?partner=yahootix<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> ------------------------<br clear="none">> Keith Smith</div><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Regards,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Nathan England<br clear="none"><br clear="none">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br clear="none">NME Consulting Services <a shape="rect" href="http://www.nmecs.com/" target="_blank">http://www.nmecs.com</a><br clear="none">Nathan England (<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:nathan@nmecs.com" href="mailto:nathan@nmecs.com">nathan@nmecs.com</a>)<br clear="none">Systems Administration / Web Application Development<br clear="none">Information
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