I have to wonder what it's like for Zuckerberg, or Brin, or any of the other big internet moguls today.
Here they are creating internet experiences made as addictive as possible, meanwhile gathering every damned little piece of miniscule information possible about each of their users: where they are, who their friends are, what they like, what they hate, their favorite colors, their favorite brands, and so on.
Hell, people are happy giving away this stuff! And all of if can be plugged directly into a big honking machine to sell stuff!
Then the government comes along and wants in on the action too. They start vacuuming up data gigabytes at a time.
It must seem like the only people not getting in on this action is the common folks, the patsies.
I have no idea and could care less what their official statements are. It's obvious they have no problem with gathering the information as long as they were the ones doing it. But in private, what kind of opinion must they have about all of this?
They are losing users now. People are more interested in privacy issues than before, and Google and FB were always weak on privacy by design. There isn't much they can do. It's their inherent deficiency.
Here they are creating internet experiences made as addictive as possible, meanwhile gathering every damned little piece of miniscule information possible about each of their users: where they are, who their friends are, what they like, what they hate, their favorite colors, their favorite brands, and so on.
Hell, people are happy giving away this stuff! And all of if can be plugged directly into a big honking machine to sell stuff!
Then the government comes along and wants in on the action too. They start vacuuming up data gigabytes at a time.
It must seem like the only people not getting in on this action is the common folks, the patsies.
I have no idea and could care less what their official statements are. It's obvious they have no problem with gathering the information as long as they were the ones doing it. But in private, what kind of opinion must they have about all of this?