Google’s MyLocation privacy concerns - a spy at your service
November 29th, 2007 | by Priyatam |Google just launched their MyLocation feature. For starters, it looks cool, but there seems to be an incredibly dangerous plot behind it’s inception. Imagine your advanced phone gadget (IPhone, Blackberry, Nokia/Symbian based) able to show you a reasonable approximation of your location, in real time, not just when you *ask* for, but tracking where all you have been to, every day. Now, that is dangerous. Even though the youtube presentation shows - “Does Google know where I am?” , for which an option of “disable my location” seems to pacify a lot, it still raises a lot of doubts. It’s concerning these days of where the Internet Giants are obsessed to track people, to theire core lifestyles. First, it was Google Web History privacy fears which raised severe criticism. Next it was Facebooks’ deceptive privacy policies and now Google trying to butt into people’s mobiles secretively trying to pose as a “we want to help you” slogan. Seriously, a decade from now, ask yourself, if we ever will have control over our buying/search/social/financial/travel tracking history or will this be fed to data-hungry-voyeuristic-monsters.
Science Fiction is here. Watch out.