He who controls the past, controls the future – George Orwell, 1984. If Google was a country it would smack of Orwell’s Oceania. In 1984, Orwell paints a picture of a country where everyone is under 24 hour surveillance – Winston Smith’s job is to change old newspaper archives to chime with the truth the Party decides it wants. And on top of all Google spying on everyone and everywhere, Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results? Holy crap! surprised`NOT. It’s a historic statement yes, but nobody has yet grasped its significance. Google is one of about four search engines that counts. There are many more than four engines in the early days, but only about four have the technology to crawl much of the web on a regular basis. The four is Google, Bing, AOL, and Ask. None of them is protecting your privacy or security very well. So that leaves us with only one choice. USE Ixquick safe search engine which not only protect your privacy but also never ever save any search string from it`s users. So back to the ugly Google! “once” known for its “don’t be evil” motto is now also in bed with the US spy agency NSA known for the mass surveillance of American citizens. this became well known when this article appeared on the web. “The National Security Agency is widely understood to have the government’s biggest and smartest collection of geeks the guys that are more skilled at network warfare than just about anyone on the planet. So, in a sense, it’s only natural that Google would turn to the NSA after the company was hit by an ultra sophisticated hack attack. After all, the military has basically done the same thing, putting the NSA in charge of its new “Cyber Command.” The Department of Homeland Security is leaning heavily on the NSA to secure gov networks”
This is why Google always place first in Big Brother awards , focused on privacy issues. This company is a BIG Illuminati tool.
1. Google’s immortal cookie:
Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it’s years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Any time you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don’t already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number.
2. Google records everything they can:
For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as “IP delivery based on geolocation.”
3. Google retains all data indefinitely:
Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.
4. Google won’t say why they need this data:
Inquiries to Google about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28) asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information, he had no comment.
5. Google hires spooks:
Keyhole, Inc. was supported with funds from the CIA. They developed a database of spy-in-the-sky images from all over the world. Google acquired Keyhole in 2004, and would like to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington.
6. Google’s toolbar is spyware:
With the advanced features enabled, Google’s free tool-bar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf, and yes, it reads your cookie too. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that’s only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their tool-bar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google’s tool-bar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the tool-bar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you connect to Google (which is many times a day). Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you’d like an updated version. But not Google. Any software that updates automatically presents a massive security risk.
7. Google’s cache copy is illegal:
Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google’s cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a “no-archive” meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don’t. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google’s cache. The cache copy should be “opt-in” for webmasters, not “opt-out.”
8. Google is not your friend:
By now Google enjoys a 75 percent monopoly for all external referrals to most websites. Web masters cannot avoid seeking Google’s approval these days, assuming they want to increase traffic to their site. If they try to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google’s semi-secret algorithms, they may find themselves penalized by Google, and their traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time Google doesn’t even answer email from web masters.
9. Google is a privacy time bomb:
With 200 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved.
10. Google`s browser Chrome is a major spy:
Take a look at this test of the scum-bag browser. What was tested? Apparently, they have monitored Google Chrome behaviour with network protocol analyser tool and here are the results: After typing Microsoft.com in the address field, all calls were addressed to IP 74.125.43.100 (host: bw-in-f100.google.com) which is Google’s for sure.
This shows nicely how each and every character, when entered in slow speed, gets transmitted to Google whereupon the Google system returns its suggestions that will not be modified further, the more complete your final address string becomes. It is important to note that we are analysing the browser’s address field here, not a Google query field. So the Conclusion? With its Chrome browser Google is actually monitoring your entire surfing behaviour, not merely the searches you may conduct via their search engine. So uninstall it and never use it again.
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