Kill= seperate into different companies.
(EDIT: The table of governmental data requests to Google for those who are interested, during a 6 month period in 2012
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/countries/?t=table
Incidentally you may notice that Google are pretty good, about providing information on this and thats because they are one of the better companies at this. It's just unfortunate how much data they process and naturally Google can't turn down a request made by agencies empowered to make such a request. (also the EU kept hammering at them and threatening legislation if they didn't. And even then Google didn't fully comply
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/16/google-privacy-policies-eu-data-protection )
Google controls:
*50% of smart phone usage
*20% of web browser usage
*The majority of internet searches
*One of the biggest email providers in the world
*Pretty much all internet videos
*A large chunk of all advertising on the internet
*One of the largest providers of website statistics
*The most popular map/route making software
*A image map of the entire world
*A video map of large sections of all the streets in the world
*Their own social network
*Their own PC OS
On top of that, they have specialised in mining information from large chunks of data and finding correlations in data and behaviour patterns. Their business model revolves around accurately profiling people and then using that data to get a portion of all the people they reach to do something they wouldn't have done without Googles involvement
Every website with a +1 or a google ad, will send a message to Google to tell you you've visited it (unless you block it with an add-on)
(Incidentally if you use an app to stop Google tracking you from website to website, something you're legally allowed to do, they'll just pull their adverts all together and the creators won't get any money)
What I'm saying is, if the executive chairman ever turns round to the CEO and says 'Hey, how about for a laugh we take over the world?' the CEO's going to respond 'You mean you didn't know?'
It's anticompetitive, there are only a few companies left in the world who can hope to compete with Google in any business venture they decide on. Even without the money, Google is now big enough that they basically own a chunk of the brainpower of the world so big that no other company can be intelligent enough to compete.
Google use their position to further their gains. Right now youtube (in Germany at least) is flooded with adverts asking people to campaign against privacy laws that would restrict Google's operating.
And finally, I believe that people like the CIA can force Google to hand over any data they need. We're in a situation where intelligence agencies don't have to spy on people because Google has all the information they'd ever need.
So is it time to die? I'm okay with a company owning any one of the things that Google has, but all of them are too much. We would never trust a government with this much power, it can't be right to trust a private company with it.
(EDIT: The table of governmental data requests to Google for those who are interested, during a 6 month period in 2012
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/countries/?t=table
Incidentally you may notice that Google are pretty good, about providing information on this and thats because they are one of the better companies at this. It's just unfortunate how much data they process and naturally Google can't turn down a request made by agencies empowered to make such a request. (also the EU kept hammering at them and threatening legislation if they didn't. And even then Google didn't fully comply
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/16/google-privacy-policies-eu-data-protection )
Google controls:
*50% of smart phone usage
*20% of web browser usage
*The majority of internet searches
*One of the biggest email providers in the world
*Pretty much all internet videos
*A large chunk of all advertising on the internet
*One of the largest providers of website statistics
*The most popular map/route making software
*A image map of the entire world
*A video map of large sections of all the streets in the world
*Their own social network
*Their own PC OS
On top of that, they have specialised in mining information from large chunks of data and finding correlations in data and behaviour patterns. Their business model revolves around accurately profiling people and then using that data to get a portion of all the people they reach to do something they wouldn't have done without Googles involvement
Every website with a +1 or a google ad, will send a message to Google to tell you you've visited it (unless you block it with an add-on)
(Incidentally if you use an app to stop Google tracking you from website to website, something you're legally allowed to do, they'll just pull their adverts all together and the creators won't get any money)
What I'm saying is, if the executive chairman ever turns round to the CEO and says 'Hey, how about for a laugh we take over the world?' the CEO's going to respond 'You mean you didn't know?'
It's anticompetitive, there are only a few companies left in the world who can hope to compete with Google in any business venture they decide on. Even without the money, Google is now big enough that they basically own a chunk of the brainpower of the world so big that no other company can be intelligent enough to compete.
Google use their position to further their gains. Right now youtube (in Germany at least) is flooded with adverts asking people to campaign against privacy laws that would restrict Google's operating.
And finally, I believe that people like the CIA can force Google to hand over any data they need. We're in a situation where intelligence agencies don't have to spy on people because Google has all the information they'd ever need.
So is it time to die? I'm okay with a company owning any one of the things that Google has, but all of them are too much. We would never trust a government with this much power, it can't be right to trust a private company with it.