Is Google that sinister?

[Travis Retriever]

http://www.cracked.com/article_18540_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-google.html
This is scary.
Is that true?
If so, how/why does this happen?

[Virgil0211]

http://www.cracked.com/article_18540_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-google.html
This is scary.
Is that true?
If so, how/why does this happen?

Looks like a pretty huge pile of BS to me, like that guy who made that laughable 'expose' on Wal-Mart (I think it was "The high cost of low prices", or some crap like that.).

[MrBogosity]

I've only read part of the first one, but it's enough to tell me it's BS.

"If you use Google to help you navigate the Web, there's a good chance they've installed a cookie onto your browser that logs every page you visit, every form you fill out and every conversation you have. Google sees it all and stores it for at least nine months."

That's IMPOSSIBLE. Cookies are completely incapable of storing that kind of information, and even if they could, it can only be given back to the site that created them.

I don't see much point in reading more.

[Virgil0211]

I've only read part of the first one, but it's enough to tell me it's BS.

"If you use Google to help you navigate the Web, there's a good chance they've installed a cookie onto your browser that logs every page you visit, every form you fill out and every conversation you have. Google sees it all and stores it for at least nine months."

That's IMPOSSIBLE. Cookies are completely incapable of storing that kind of information, and even if they could, it can only be given back to the site that created them.

I don't see much point in reading more.

It's a shame, really. That site has made some other pretty interesting lists. Like the five men who make Rambo look like a pussy, or the 12 historical figures that were near-impossible to kill.

[VectorM]

Over 60 percent of U.S. state governments have "Gone Google" and now use one or more Google enterprise apps. Thousands of gigabytes of government data, all held in Google's servers. As security expert Sherri Davidoff puts it, "Google now controls our government's access to its own data."

So, what, people seriously think this somehow gives Google ultimate power? If the Federal Government wants to shut down Google, they WILL SHUT DOWN GOOGLE AND THERE IS NOTHING GOOGLE CAN DO. NOTHING.

But of course, people who believe this crap probably think that Google has a secret base filled with cyborg agents, like in video games.

I swear, 90% of the stupid shit we hear about the free market and corporations comes form movies/comics/video games. The Big Evil Corporation is the most overused villain of our time.

[Gumba Masta]

Should'nt they be worried about the goverment which has 100 per cent access to that data in the first place?

[Travis Retriever]

@Shane:  Thanks, glad to know the article is BS.

@Masta Gumba & VectorM:  Good points.