After the huge news that Google's Chrome will evolve from browser to an operating system and yesterday, a real and true Google Phone (Hardware is manufactured by HTC, but the software and user flavoring is all googled-out.) Google takes yet another step towards world domination.
Real-time search results are now -- live! Facebook has made a big event out of changing their privacy settings. And with Microsoft and Google battling for Facebook's live search results, you have to think about the underlying issue.
You're privacy!
I joke about how The Matrix and Minority Report is truly a reality that we'll soon see in the next few years. But all jokes aside...watch out.
Twenty years ago Nino Brown was checking his brick phone in a Jeep plotting to takeover The Carter building...and I was laughing at a grown, funny and misguided young soul named Pookie.
Ten years ago, there was no Facebook, no Twitter, no live search, no touchscreen tablets and batphones. Your up-to-date status and satellite view of your car at Hooters was not available and I was probably checking my Motorola Startac for 80085 on Grace Street. Most of all there was no Patriot Act.
Appearing on CNBC, Schmidt was asked whether or not users should inherently trust Google. Schmidt's response was "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines --including Google --do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities." -- [ SOURCE ]
That last sentence is HUGE.
Besides all of the business motives behind Mozilla pushing users towards Bing, each day we become more accessible. Nobody is forcing any of us to participate. But the attractiveness of these social web apps and sites make it easy for any of us to be accessed by big brother, or by other sinister agents. Security is key.
In the next 10 years, Google will be firmly in place in our phones, computers, and televisions and who knows what else. No need for lojack, just leave your phone in your car. We'll track a car thief with Google Maps. Google will take it one step further and create a chip ...no, a widget, you can embed into your ENGINE OIL! I'm kidding...
Back on point, Google already has DNS. So you got to wonder if they'll be serving sites as well. And since "everything" is moving into "the cloud" anyway, you may see a lot of the services that you use today will either disappear or slowly adopt, the cloud. Word to Dominos...you can track where you pizza's at!
With real-time live searches, google map foursquare pinpointing, twitter status updating, and facebook connect finger printing everything, can we really get privacy? My cable box may record what I am watching, but it isn't building a dossier based upon my watching habits and internet lifestream habits...that is, as far as I know.
We're getting there.
Comcast bought NBC Universal. That means less choices. Higher prices maybe? Movies coming sooner to On Demand? And even if I don't subscribe to that, how can I get around that facebook and twitter now lives in my PS3. I shot a rebel in a favela on Modern Warfare 2 back on November 10th at 11am...you found out about that on my status. And Google probably stored that someplace.
This goes out to all of you who like to update your status profiles with your inner most thoughts. Leaving your emotions, everything that you eat, and your battlecry against "teh haterz" with the proclamation that "you don't know me." Ahh...that's where you're wrong.
When I die, don't eulogize me. Just tweet a summary of my dossier that Google will provide you. That'll do.
This isn't a complaint. I see it as the world we're living in. We're a long way from Nino Brown. And that has only been the last 20 years.
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