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Συνδεμένος με καλώδιο συντάκτης: Το Google μας έχει όλα στον Ιστό του

Κυριακή, 29η Μαρτίου 2009

Η νέα υπηρεσία άποψης οδών του Google - που επιδεικνύει τις φωτογραφίες 360 βαθμών των οδικών τοπίων σε 25 βρετανικές πόλεις - το έχει κάνει μια πρόκληση που παίρνει τις σελίδες διορθωμένες δοκίμια Συνδεμένος με καλώδιο γραφεία αυτή η εβδομάδα. Κατ' αρχάς, επισημαίνουμε το συνδυαζόμενο συντάκτη του περιοδικού σε μια φούστα σε μια οδό του δυτικού Λονδίνου (για να είναι δίκαιος, επιμένει ότι είναι μια σκωτσέζικη φούστα). Κατόπιν ανακαλύπτουμε ότι ο πρόσωπο-θολώνοντας αλγόριθμος Google έχει bizarrely το πρόσωπο των άμμων Bobby σε μια τοιχογραφία του Μπέλφαστ, για να προστατεύσει πιθανώς τι το λογισμικό υποθέτει ότι είναι η μυστικότητά του.

Αλλά Simon Davies, που τρέχει μια γενικά ευυπόληπτη ομάδα εκστρατείας αποκαλούμενη μυστικότητα διεθνή, δεν είναι πολύ διασκεδασμένος. Η άποψη οδών, ο κ. Davies παραπονέθηκε στον Επίτροπο πληροφοριών αυτή η εβδομάδα, «έχει δημιουργήσει τις πολυάριθμες περιπτώσεις αμηχανίας και κινδύνου», και έτσι δέσμευσε να υποβάλει μια νομική υπόθεση δοκιμής.

Γιατί; 15 χρονών είχαν παραπονεθεί στη μυστικότητα διεθνή ότι Google τον έσπασε απότομα που φέρνει skateboard «που οι γονείς του είχαν τον απαγόρευσαν ρητώς από τη χρησιμοποίηση» το OH, και ένα παντρεμένο άτομο ήταν συλλήφθείη «ομιλία στη στενή εγγύτητα με μια γυναίκα συνάδελφος». Ξεχάστε τις κάρτες ταυτότητας, τους καταλόγους του DNA των παιδιών και κυβερνητικό να γριπίσει των ηλεκτρονικών ταχυδρομείων μας - κατά την άποψη οδών, έχουμε προσδιορίσει τελικά την τελευταία απειλή ελευθερία των βρετανικών πολιτών».

Καλά, όχι, πραγματικά. Αν και μερικά από εκείνα τα φωτογραφισμένα βγαίνοντας καταστήματα ή την ύπαρξη φύλων άρρωστα στα πάρκα αυτοκινήτων μπαρ μπορεί να είχαν προτρέψει οι διαγραφές από τη μηχανή δημόσιος-σχέσεων Google, η δημόσια σφαίρα παραμένει ουσιαστικά δημόσια. Παρά τις να συρθεί εισβολές της νομοθεσίας ιδιωτικότητας γαλλικός-ύφους, κάποια μπορεί ακόμα σύμφωνα με το νόμο να συλλάβει τις εικόνες από και τις βρετανικές δημόσιες αστικές τάξεις - έτσι είναι μια γελειότητα για εκείνους που γλιστρούν ένα τσιγάρο εργασία-σπασιμάτων, ή που φλερτάρουν σε μια στάση λεωφορείων, για να υποστηρίξει ότι κάπως τα δικαιώματά τους έχουν παραβιαστεί από μια περνώντας φωτογραφική μηχανή. Ένα δικαίωμα στην απόλυτη μυστικότητα στο κοινό; Πάρτε πέρα από το.

Όχι, η πραγματική δημόσια απειλή από Google είναι η πάντα-διογκώνοντας κλίμακά του ως ανεξέλεγκτη κέρδος-επιδιώκουσα επιχείρηση στην οποία εμπιστευόμαστε τις πρωτοφανείς δρεπανιές των εμπιστευτικών πληροφοριών. Αυτό που ήταν μόλις απλά χρησιμεύσει τώρα μια niftily αποτελεσματική επιχείρηση αναζήτησης ως ένα προσωπικό ημερολόγιο, ένα αρχείο ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου, ένα κατάστημα των εγγράφων επεξεργασίας κειμένου μας, μια τηλεοπτική αποθήκη, μια κινητός-τηλέφωνο-ακολουθώντας υπηρεσία, μια περιήγηση δρόμος-ταξιδιού - ένα άγρυπνο όργανο ελέγχου των ιατρικών ιδεοληψιών, των φυσικών μετακινήσεων και των πολιτικών κλίσεών μας. Και αυτός είναι λεπτός, υπό τον όρο ότι Google είναι διαφανές και ευαίσθητο για το πώς συλλέγει και χρησιμοποιεί τα προσωπικά στοιχεία μας, και ότι τον φρουρεί unfailingly. But as Privacy International pointed out, after a survey found Google to be the worst-ranked leading internet company for respecting user privacy, it is secretive, even hostile, about the use to which it puts our data, often for an indefinite length of time. That is something that should concern us all - especially with the boom in cloud computing.

Previously, we stored most of our data on computers that we controlled in our homes or workplaces. Today, as we rely increasingly on a “cloud” of distant servers to host our e-mail or calculate our taxes, we are shifting such information at an unprecedented scale to networks administered by private corporations. So let’s say you’ve archived your family photos on Google’s Picasa, your confidential accounts on Google Docs and revealed your sexual preferences during searches of Google Images. Admit it: you have no idea how this might be used to help advertisers to target you personally, or governments to profile you surreptitiously.

I write as an admirer of a company whose innovations have enriched our digital lives. But I worry that its dominance is outpacing governments’ ability to challenge it. Two years ago I warned about the online trail Google collected about you “for ever”, all linked to a personally identifiable Internet Protocol address. I suggested that their proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, the ad-serving business built on “understanding” internet users, gave a worrying indication of its corporate thinking. DoubleClick had made proud assurances about users’ privacy protection, until its CEO was forced to admit the company had made a “mistake by planning to merge names with anonymous user activity across websites in the absence of government and industry privacy standards”.

Earlier this month, Google launched “interest-based advertising” - what others call behavioural targeting - serving advertisements to users based on their online activity. Yet Google is not simply monitoring what you do at its own pages - it is also tracking your interests as you access other unrelated websites. A key benefit, it says, is that it will be able to serve you adverts that more accurately reflect your interests. But do you really want one company to know so much about you? Privately held data has a habit of leaking out. As recently as March 7, a security flaw meant that private papers stored at Google Docs could be accessed by unauthorised users. Mistakes happen - but the volume of data that the firm holds makes it a target for malicious hackers.

Then there is the immutable law of the digital age that data collected for one purpose may be used for purposes never originally intended. We have no idea how future technologies will exploit our historic data trail in ways that may disadvantage us. Will life insurers penalise our past medical search queries, or the tax office fret that we are aspiring to products beyond our declared income?

What we do know is that one database has an innate desire to merge with another to create ever more detailed personal profiles. Wired journalists have been investigating how broadcast, telecoms and internet businesses are planning to mine our viewing and clicking data as never before. Already, your TV set-top box can provide a vast information trail, allowing analysts to know whether you’ve fallen asleep, who in the family is using the remote according to how they navigate the menu, and what (based on the shows and ads they view) they want out of life. Now, let’s imagine how much more powerful this information would be if linked to other personal databases - not just your internet trail, but your purchase history at the supermarket.

Add to this near-future scenario interactive digital billboards that recognise faces and serve targeted ads based on what the database knows about you. And then crunch in real-time mapping of your precise location, based on signals emitted from your mobile phone. All, of course, benign services that will benefit the consumer by targeting special offers when in the vicinity of a store … But have we debated sufficiently how we want such information to be used, and what is being done to ensure that it does not fall into the wrong hands?

Google - did I mention? - has a rather cool mobile-phone tracking program called Latitude, which lets you know where your friends are according to signals emitted from their phones. Again, all perfectly fun, and Google makes both parties opt in to being tracked. But let’s just imagine that a jealous partner gains access to your unattended phone and enables Latitude without your knowledge. Or government bureaucrats, never satisfied with the extent of their power to track the populace…

This is the moment for us to demand clear answers from the tech industry’s data crunchers, not only Google, and to educate ourselves about what we are giving away. Because when one unaccountable company knows where we are, who we’re e-mailing, what’s in our work documents, what we’re buying and thinking - well, that starts to add up to real information.

David Rowan is the editor of Wired magazine, which launches in the UK on Thursday


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  1. BARBARA DELANEY
    Posted: Mar 29th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    i think google if an arm of or atleast infiltrated by the CIA as James Woolsey’s venture capital firm has given 100’s of million in dollars to them. See links below.
    I would have to say that if the former director of CIA under Regan and Bush? is involved in venture capital in the forex markets, gold and Google he is up to no good and we no longer have any free markets. Gain capital are crooks as I dealt with them that is how I found out Wolsey Invested in a very small forex firm that now advertizes on bloomberg. The CIA is in the gold, and forex markets and is manipulating them and all these tech co. are all covers to spy on the US public. That is my personal opinion

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  2. Jules McConnaughey
    Posted: Mar 29th, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Very balanced article, Mr. Rowan. You present the real issues and leave out the paranoia abundant in other blogs.

    One thing, though - we do have the option to use other search engines and not to use cloud computing. Personally, I don’t trust distant servers and prefer to retain my data the old-fashioned way - on my hard drive, with regular backups. However, I’ll continue to use Google search because in my opinion, it provides the most pertinent search results. I have no habits I want to hide from the government or anyone else, but if I ever do I’ll choose an alternate means of searching.

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