Even when I am pressed from all sides, working a 60 work-hour week and then coming home to motor though stuff for my graduate degree, I will make time for a Cory Doctorow story.
Scroogled is Google turned big brother. The profile that helps advertises target you based on your internet search patterns has not been turned into a tool for government domestic and international security.
Greg a once insider has just come back from a five month vacation earned by cashing in his Google shares as he exited Google’s employ. As Greg enters into the US he is stoped by DHS using Google to view the ads that popup along Greg’s searches. Greg is then interrogated because some of those ads are for rocketry.
Disturbed, Greg goes to see a friend and current employee of Goggle to get the 411 on the customs using Google to screen entrance into the US. From here, the story is 110% Doctorow. It is science fiction that seems so real and NOW that it spooked me to my core. I have to wonder what my Google profile is and what the interpenetrations will mean for my future. I’m already very careful about what I post on my blog just in case a potential employer would Google me as part of the hiring process.
This is a must story for any paranoid generation-X-filer like me.
Read Cory’s Plug
Read the story here: Scroogled
Doctorow, Cory. Scroogled. http://www.radaronline.com/
Scroogled is Google turned big brother. The profile that helps advertises target you based on your internet search patterns has not been turned into a tool for government domestic and international security.
Greg a once insider has just come back from a five month vacation earned by cashing in his Google shares as he exited Google’s employ. As Greg enters into the US he is stoped by DHS using Google to view the ads that popup along Greg’s searches. Greg is then interrogated because some of those ads are for rocketry.
Disturbed, Greg goes to see a friend and current employee of Goggle to get the 411 on the customs using Google to screen entrance into the US. From here, the story is 110% Doctorow. It is science fiction that seems so real and NOW that it spooked me to my core. I have to wonder what my Google profile is and what the interpenetrations will mean for my future. I’m already very careful about what I post on my blog just in case a potential employer would Google me as part of the hiring process.
This is a must story for any paranoid generation-X-filer like me.
Read Cory’s Plug
Read the story here: Scroogled
Doctorow, Cory. Scroogled. http://www.radaronline.com/
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