is Google anyone’s friend?
Don’t get me wrong - like everyone who has been around the web for a long (read:maybe too long) time, Google has been an important part of opening the interweb up to the masses and making many web based things easy.
But…
As a closet data miner, and Information Analyser, I often wonder about when the popular masses will get as paranoid about their data collection services as they were here in Australia over the Australia Card debate, in the 1980s.
I was reading this morning a couple of interesting posts, 1 of which I tend to agree with, although I can see the value in both messages.