Lab+5

lab 5*

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Google CEO Eric Schmidt, December 2009

Google has become one of the number one providers in many useful applications for users on their computer and their phone. Some of these are G-mail, create document iGoogle, Google wave, and for Mac users they even created a latitude to find people near you.

The CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt blatantly says to anyone who uses Google that “If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place” (Schmidt, 2009). This means that any application that we use from Google will be tracked, such as emails, recent/past searches, documents saved online, chat logs, and sites that were you clicked through the searches. This is a concern because is Google really using this for the good or for the bad? When I read Eric Schmidt statement, I agree with it in some ways. We discussed about security and when security regarding fraud which is now a big concern in the internet because people who purchase item in sites that are trusted, will possibly be a victim of identity theft. Identity thefts theft can be all over the world and Google tracking our moves can help us find these by monitoring specious movements of someone. Another good purpose for this is for pornography and piracy. Even though we Google is tracking us they are not bothered with small concerns like us but the bigger picture.