Google As Big Brother?
Radar Magazine has published a scarily fictitious story about Internet search giant Google with this tagline: "Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life?"
The lengthy tale, which ponders a world in which Google and the Department of Homeland Security merge, is written by Cory Doctorow, a well-known technology journalist and science fiction author who co-edits the popular BoingBoing blog.
An excerpt: "Greg sighed. He knew Google's reach all too well. Recently, the site's search-optimization software had begun using the data to tailor Web searches to individual users. It proved to be a revolutionary tool for advertisers. An authoritarian government would have other purposes in mind."
Radar conjured up some pretty realistic looking photographs that illustrate the imagined new world order. The photos depict airport security and immigration courtesy of Google and Google-sponsored public surveillance cameras.
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