The news today is that Google will be tracking users across all of its websites. That means Google (obviously), YouTube, Gmail, and they can track what you do and what you search through your computer, tablet, and phone. You can't opt out, so that means if you use some of the most popular websites, Google is gathering data on you. Your only choice is to stay off the internet. Kind of 1984-ish and really frightening in this new world of fluid boundaries and changing definitions of privacy. Already, we can place a GPS tracker on your car (no right to privacy there- or is there?), check out your Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn pages and posts, download your texts, and the pages you visit, and now for what you search. Google says it's so they can help optimize your search and maximize your experience. For those of us in the Trenches, it's just another way to gather evidence. You'd be amazed at what people put on the internet. People still actually think that they can post something and it's private. Wake up! It's called the World Wide Web for a reason. If your friends can see it, than it's possible we can too. So, before you post that truly embarrassing picture, the photo shoot of you in next to no clothes, your underage children having a drinking party at your house or say that truly awful thing about your former spouse, STOP....and think whether you'd like it paraded into a court of law and the public record.
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