When people found out at different times their TV, Radio, phone, visited web sites, etc. could all be monitored or tracked, technical people like the users of this site, had a fit and have made claims of invasion of privacy.
What people find "private" has evolved over time, and this case of data storage or the email surveillance will pass over as well. People that understand the technology can see the worse case scenario and tend to in most cases over react. The average Joe doesn't really understand and wont for a couple months or years, but will also adapt and learn to "secure" himself.
Could this technology be used for "evil"? Sure could... will it? I don't trust any co-workers or friends to monitor my data, so why would I trust a company like Google or any other to store potentially monitoring personal data. My data is something i find personal, like many users on this site. the average Joe though, in my experience, i don't know that they find much of their computer data that personal. the few things they do find personal, are probably very public already and they don't know it, email, unsecured web transactions, and instant messaging, stuff like that.
So what I'm saying is the people that understand what's happening will worry as always, and the clueless people will stay clueless...
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When people found out at different times their TV, Radio, phone, visited web sites, etc. could all be monitored or tracked, technical people like the users of this site, had a fit and have made claims of invasion of privacy.
What people find "private" has evolved over time, and this case of data storage or the email surveillance will pass over as well. People that understand the technology can see the worse case scenario and tend to in most cases over react. The average Joe doesn't really understand and wont for a couple months or years, but will also adapt and learn to "secure" himself.
Could this technology be used for "evil"? Sure could... will it? I don't trust any co-workers or friends to monitor my data, so why would I trust a company like Google or any other to store potentially monitoring personal data. My data is something i find personal, like many users on this site. the average Joe though, in my experience, i don't know that they find much of their computer data that personal. the few things they do find personal, are probably very public already and they don't know it, email, unsecured web transactions, and instant messaging, stuff like that.
So what I'm saying is the people that understand what's happening will worry as always, and the clueless people will stay clueless...