Google misleads on Nexus 7 success.
Personal note first: I've been boondocking most of the summer - North Woods of Wisconsin and a lot of Montana - and have rarely had an Internet connection. I will be traveling again tomorrow and have ...
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pulsar wrote:
Your first sentence makes my point. Google is a disreputable company, that has gathered more information about each of us than, possibly, the NSA, and few seem to care.
If you are only worried about Google, then you are very naive. Marketing data has been gathered on Americans since at least the '30s. Do you use a credit card? Do you have any customer loyalty cards? And of course you use the Internet. Read up on how Target gathers and uses marketing data. In the '80s I used to work in the direct mail advertising industry. It is mind boggling the amount of data that marketing departments have on us. And that was well before the Internet. Unless you live in the wilderness off the grid, everything anyone needs to know about you is already out there without Google's help. Google is just doing what all the others have been doing all along.
