@ yojordi, OSC-DIS & Filip Maurits:
Hehe, hier zat ik gisteren ook nog over na te denken. Had net het flash filmpje
EPIC 2014 gezien. Was overigens al lang daarvoor
google-watch.org tegen gekomen.
Heb gisteren een stukje in mijn web log gepost wat hier ook over gaat. Het stukje is nog lang niet af, en ik heb het wat bevooroordeeld geschreven, maar volgens mij klopt het grotendeels wel. Mijn web log is in het Engels. Hieronder een samenvatting:
Google played things real strategic with Gmail. Here's some examples: Gmail started as a beta product. This means it's not quite ready for prime time, and Google has an excuse if errors are found/made. And together with releasing Gmail as a beta service, Google introduced invites. You depend on someone you know to give you an invite, which you can use to get an account at Gmail. This makes Gmail look cool because people think it's something special to receive an invite.
They're building a social map of you and everyone you know. Maybe this seems silly, but let me explain. I think Google is building a social map. Through their invites, they're already expanding this map. They know your contacts. Now just for the fun of it, imagine
Google offering an instant message service. Whoopie! Even more information, and this time in regard to your social life aswell as your interests! And what about their privacy policy in regard to all of this? Or should I say lack of it?
They've got potential access to all searches you ever ran. They 0wn your e-mail inbox. They're already scanning your inbox (contextual advertising). This means they have a hell of a lot of information. This is called data-mining, and it can be very profitable. Lucky for us privacy policies prevent large corporations from doing this kind of stuff. Oh wait, did I mention
Google has almost no privacy policy?. Oh sorry, I thought everyone was suppost to know this kind of stuff?!
Don't you check each and every privacy policy? No? Oh well, proves my
point, almost no one realises what Google is doing.
Sorry voor de lap tekst
- Peter Odding