Things Google knows about my nuts

This list of Things Google knows about you is sort of chilling, I guess. But not really.

I mean, I know certain people get a big kick out of making Google into the bad guy, just like it used to be trendy to villify Microsoft. Fact is, both of these companies can and do collect enormous amounts of information about you. But since they are such de facto standards, you pretty much just have to deal with it. Or else, you have to learn about cool things like encryption technologies, darknets & crypto-anarchism.

Or, you can take the other online path, and realize that “demographic information about you” does not equal “you.”

Otherwise, just shut up. Like don’t tell me that you’re not going to sign up for Gmail, because you think Hotmail or Yahoo is somehow mystically safer. Like they aren’t also collecting info on you - come on! And what the hell do you have to keep safe anyway? Your stupid forwards your buddies at work are always sending you?

Anyway, here’s a little surprise to all these people who are complaining about how Google knows so much about you: guess what motherfucker, there’s a much bigger more dangerous entity which is “legally authorized” to collect much much more information about you, and then do horrible things to you in the name of that information. It’s called the government. And thanks to the PATRIOT Act (and roughly 150 years of ignoring the Constitution), there’s pretty much no escape - even if you run out and vote for John Kerry a million times. MUAHAHAHAHAH!


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This entry was written by Tim Boucher, posted on October 4, 2004 at 1:43 am.

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