Big Do-No-Evil Brother
Cringley writes:
Take all the web usage and YouTube video data Google has been acquiring about us all, glue it to our data down at the credit bureau, tie it to our mobile phone number and our mobile activity, then use the resulting product as both an information service and a database for targeting ads and you have Super Google — the most valuable company on Earth and entirely based on metadata.
The only thing we won’t be able to do is hide.
This is the scariest and most interesting thing I’ve read today. I can’t decide which feeling is stronger.
The little “lock” switch on my mp3 player is going to break any day. Which reminds me that it did that once before and they gave me a whole new mp3 player. Do I want another one? (No, no I don’t.)