[TriLUG] Re: Search Engine question

[Rodney Radford]

>From Google's own website, a little info about what they want to do.  They don't actually want to record your conversations, or even send them back to Google, but instead they are converting ambient sounds to signatures locally on the PC and sending that back to aid in target driven ads.

     http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/interactive-tv-conference-and-best.html

I am not much of a conspiracy freak, but this direction from Google is a bit scary to me. Not only in the amount of info they would have of your private, off computer, lives - but also in how it can be misused.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Lance A. Brown" <lance at bearcircle.net>
>Sent: Oct 16, 2006 12:08 PM
>To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
>Subject: [TriLUG] Re: Search Engine question
>
>Eric H Christensen wrote:
>> Ummmm...  I'll have to agree that this is an urban legend.  I think they
>> have better things to do than to try to hack into the millions of
>> computers that are out there, try to figure out which ones have
>> microphones and which ones have web cams, then figure out how to grab
>> the data, then figure out which ones they can actually hear something
>> useful on, then have someone actually listen to each one to try to hear
>> what is going on.
>
>This is not an urban legend.
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/03/google_eavesdropping_software/
>
>Google is working on technology that will monitor your computers
>microphone and listen to the ambient audio in the room, process it for
>useful information and use that to help tune Good Desktop and/or your
>use of Good search better.
>
>I would hope that you would have to choose to install this software as
>opposed to Google hacking into your computer to do it covertly.
>
>--[Lance]
>
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