Expecting Privacy From Google?? U gotta be Kiddin...!!

Nobody on the internet is truly anonymous. Privacy??? For every one serious invasion of privacy that results from the internet becoming a parallel to everyday life (such as the Google Maps car wirelessly collecting personal data and passwords), there's a dozen "privacy invasions" such as companies targeting ads at you and social networks selling the info that people willingly supply to them knowing that selling personal info to advertisers is pretty much the only way for social networking sites to make money. Not just websites most of us have noticed those irritating related searches ad bar that pops up on Google chrome browser.

Here i'm mainly considering breaches and fooling by Google. There are several cases pending in Federal courts acceding to this. Google blatantly puts it like this If You Send To Gmail, You Have 'No Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy'

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Google has been accused of illegally wiretapping in gmail scans of Internet users, now Google claims this was for the sake of showing related ads. Even  Google managed to avoid major privacy penalties, the consumers have always been at the receiving end of digital privacy issue. It is the user who has to determine whether to trust the carrier or not, in order to ascertain the confidentiality of his data. Google uses Gmail as its own secret data-mining machine, which intercepts, warehouses, and uses, without consent, the private thoughts and ideas of millions of unsuspecting Americans who transmit e-mail messages through Gmail". In Fed courts Google is trying to dismiss the accusations by claiming them as 'ordinary business practices'. 
read about this in detail at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/technology/google-accused-of-wiretapping-in-gmail-scans.html?_r=1&)

Google must stand trial for Wi-Fi data grab. Google admitted in 2010 that its camera-carrying cars, which snap photos for Google Maps’ Street View feature, had done more than just photograph commercial thoroughfares, residential neighborhoods, and the occasional bit of surreal street art. Turns out between 2007-2010, the company’s fleet of roving shutterbugs intercepted about 600 gigabytes of “payload data”—emails, usernames, passwords, personal videos and documents—transmitted over nearby unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in more than 30 countries. 

Google claimed data sent and received over an unencrypted Wi-Fi network is “readily accessible to the general public.” Since the Wiretap Act says it’s OK to intercept electronic communication available to the public (like a radio transmission), capturing unencrypted Wi-Fi network chatter was also permissible, Google reasoned, and the case should be closed. read more here.


3. Other Cases 

• Google settles Federal Trade Commission charges 'that it used deceptive tactics and violated its own privacy promises to consumers when it launched its social network, Google Buzz, in 2010.'March 30, 2011
• The Federal Communications Commission fines Google $25,000, for 'impeding a U.S. investigation into the Web search leader's data collection for its Street View project, which allows users to see street level images when they map a location.' April 13, 2012
• Google agrees to pay a $22.5 million fine to the FTC for making a false promise about cookie tracking to users of Apple's Safari web browser that 'they would automatically be opted out of such tracking, as a result of the default settings of the Safari browser used in Macs, iPhones and iPads. Aug. 9, 2012
• Google Play found to share users personally identifiable information (name, email, and zip code), without their permission, every time they buy an app from the app store. Feb. 13, 2013

• Google Glass prompts its first usage ban: a Seattle bar bans the wearable device over recording and privacy concerns.March 8, 2013
• Google defends its practice of going through your Gmail by claiming “a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties, in a brief filed recently with federal courts."August 12, 2013
• After being accused of secretly tracking and invading the privacy of iPhone users, Google claims that it cannot be held accountable under UK law, an issue for which Google was fined $22.5 million by the US Federal Trade Commission.August 19, 2013
• Federal Appeals court ruled that Google could be held liable under the Wiretap Act for secretly intercepting data on WiFi routers across the United States. Google gathered personal data, such as passwords and emails, and later lied about it.Sept. 10, 2013

Now consider all these cases and think of our country. Google won't hesitate one bit to tap our online activities to increase their profits and database. We really don't have any proper system in place to tackle such violations. Google's only initiative toward the public is to seem like they care so we will keep using Google. They are not working for us, they work for the ad companies. We don't pay for any of the services, they are paid for by the ad companies. The many wonderful apps belong to them are only a service to attract us and get us to enter more data. Google is probably monitoring this post of mine and soon there will be a take down notice issues to me for violating privacy policy.

 Even though i'm saying all this yet i believe 'Google might be the largest tracker but I trust them more than I trust the second largest tracker'. :D :P