Google Offering Cash For Your Cache

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 9, 2012 @05:55PM from the have-a-couple-bucks dept.

pigrabbitbear writes "The gradual transformation of the web into an ultra-personalized, corporate-owned social space in the cloud has raised more than a few legitimate concerns about data privacy. Google, for obvious reasons, has always been one of the top cheerleaders for this metamorphosis. Touting a fresh new privacy policy that allows data about you from all of their services to coalesce, they've recently been particularly bullish about rendering that increasingly realistic digital portrait of you that lies stuffed away in their servers. It has led us again to question: How much are we comfortable with our machines knowing about us? How much is our privacy really worth? With their new program, Google is now asking those questions quite directly, and preceding them with dollar signs. Are we all on the verge of making our own information age Faustian bargains?"

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A WHOLE $5 every 3 months? by scottbomb · 2012-02-09 18:20 · Score: 3, Funny

Wow! That's like, FIVE WHOLE CENTS A DAY!
Tell Google to get bent. When they're offering $25/mo, we'll talk.
Re:Speaking as an "expert" in Faust... by themusicgod1 · 2012-02-09 18:26 · Score: 5, Funny

"I can quit google any time I feel like. I'm not addicted at all. In fact I could google 'google rehab' and start on quitting right now."

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Re:Just Might Take Them Up On It by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-09 20:07 · Score: 3, Funny

Those goats must be a lot more puritanical than I am...