hoijui wrote:AF, Google still has and uses the data, no matter how you tag it.
actually, they just get more info about you, when you tag it.
as a minor note: assuming they would work together with, for example, the CIA, i am pretty sure that they would get all the data too, even if you marked it as non-public, and did not add the CIA to your friends list.
The CIA doesn't need you to have put it all on a profile, and doesn't care if it's on Google Facebook or Twitter.
The real thing to think about is:
- Is the CIA so incompetent that it requires a social network to learn anything about you?
- Is Google going to fight the CIAs court requests ( which ti has in the past unlike facebook)
- Do you have anything that you would like to hide from the CIA that you are stupid enough to put on a social networking site, nevermind online?
- Do you feel it is utterly necessary to fill in every single field on a social networking site?
- Do you feel the need to truthfully enter your data into a social networking site?
- Do you believe that what you entered into said social networking site is more valuable and more important than the information your government is happy to to send to the CIA at the drop of a hat?
- Do you believe that the CIA and ONLY the CIA would be interested in your details if you had done bad things, and that your local law enforcement, and your governments agencies wouldn't also be involved?
- Do you exclusively use social networks to talk about personal issues that you would never use a cellphone network of mail for on the grounds that anyone with a cheap motorolla phone could be eavesdropping?
- Do you avoid talking about anything that may identify you in any way shape or form when in public places, and avoid CCTV cameras and possible locations you could be observed?
Now considering all the above, do you think it's dangerous and a gross breach of privacy to avoid social networks on the grounds that the CIA or FBI may request information about which cat pictures you +1'd and how many times you retweeted nyancat?
Do you think its a gross violation of your privacy for the FBI to find out that the address you listed on your facebook is indeed identical to the Tax returns, birth certificates, and bills they could obtain with far greater ease?
And would you rather your social network directly sold your details for profit? Or would you rather they used that information to make things more relevant, and sell relevancy instead, making you a faceless consumer until such a time that you make yourself known?
Or would you rather not have a google profile with a big shiny off switch for behavioural advertising in the settings?
