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    Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)

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    Image of Aatom Aatom
    11/05/09

    In reply to Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
    This doesn't feel that invasive or weird to me. I went to mine and can't really tell how I would ever find it useful though. #google
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    Image of Moonshine Mike Moonshine Mike
    11/05/09

    In reply to Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
    Is it time to change the name of "fleshbot" to something less innocuous? #google
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    Image of BaconCat BaconCat
    11/05/09

    @Moonshine Mike: hahaha! Fleshbot is so random and great! It taught me I'm turned on by a lot more things than I thought I was. #google
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    Image of Peter Feld Peter Feld
    11/05/09

    In reply to Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
    Let's just hope they never merge with Facebook. (On the other hand there'd be huge taxpayer savings, since we could shut down the CIA as redundant.) #google
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    11/05/09

    @Peter Feld: the CIA already owns a stake in Facebook: [www.guardian.co.uk]
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    11/05/09

    @britneyspearstears: Good article, thanks. #google
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    11/05/09

    @hilikusopus: You're very welcome. I had to look pretty deep into my email archives for that one--glad I found it. Thanks for the encouragement. #google
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    11/05/09

    In reply to Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
    Google doesn't quite know all. It certainly doesn't know about that one time with me and the showgirls and the stolen champagne in Asunción . . . Well, maybe it knows now. #google
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/05/09

    @Smitros:

    Whatever google doesn't know about me is either recorded by the guy in the silver hyundai with the really long lens, or I blurt out here. #google
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    11/05/09

    In reply to Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
    That redacted product blur is juuuuust long enough to read "Fleshlight." The cover up is always worse than the crime, Mr. Tate! #google
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    Image of Ryan Tate Ryan Tate
    11/05/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: Heh, I was deciding what to blur while in Photoshop and that one only showed a serial number, so I blurred because, ya, who knows what freaky shit I've looked up on Google Shopping.

    After I published, I clicked through, and turns out it was former Gawker Media editor Will Leitch's book. $81 fracking dollars, used!

    [www.google.com]

    (I just realized, the more I talk, the more you'll assume it was a sex toy. CONFIRMED.) #google
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    11/05/09

    @Ryan Tate: Used? Ewwww. #google
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    Image of themediatrix themediatrix
    11/06/09

    @Smitros: how have I never hearted you? #google
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    11/06/09

    @themediatrix:
    Perhaps because you somehow sensed that, like my fellow Aurora, Illinois natives Wayne and Garth, I'm not worthy. #google
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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    10/09/09

    In reply to Any Data You Give to Google Can and Will Be Used Against You
    I solve this problem with the Michael Scott smokescreen method -- half my emails are admissions of actual criminal behavior, half are outlandish, easily falsifiable lies. Foolproof!
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    Image of gefilte_fish_blues gefilte_fish_blues
    10/09/09

    In reply to Any Data You Give to Google Can and Will Be Used Against You
    Next thing you know the U.S. Post office will be used to jail mobsters.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    10/09/09

    @gefilte_fish_blues: you are so hearted for that one.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    10/09/09

    In reply to Any Data You Give to Google Can and Will Be Used Against You
    I am the most knee-jerk liberal in the world, but I have no problem with what Google did in the Bear Stearns case. If you have something sensitive to say, don't do it in an e-mail. We've known that for years. What's amazing is that the most sophisticated and powerful people still seem to get caught by e-mail's ease of utility.
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    Edited by depardoo at 10/09/09 12:50 PM depardoo was starred depardoo was unstarred
    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    10/09/09

    @depardoo: totally agree. It's evidence. Deleting an email account to hide evidence is like throwing a murder weapon in the ocean and assuming it's gone forever.

    Sorry, you do the crime - and the authorities search for evidence - it shouldn't matter if they find that evidence via a CD-ROM that has to be asked for or a sonar that has to be conducted.

    If Ryan Jenkins was emailing that he hated his wife, had bought a knife, and was going to kill her, would subpoena-ing Google for his old email account NOT be OK? Is it just that it was a financial crime? To me, crime is crime. You email, you know the ramifications.
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    Edited by FormerEnglishMajor at 10/09/09 1:00 PM FormerEnglishMajor was starred FormerEnglishMajor was unstarred
    Image of theartdodger theartdodger
    10/09/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: I agree too. But, they also talking about deleted email?

    If so, I would have a problem with that.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    10/09/09

    @theartdodger: OK, I'll bite. If they are admissions of illegal activity - of COURSE they're going to be deleted! Again, it's like throwing out a murder weapon, or throwing out a license plate from a stolen car. I guess I don't understand why - when these are educated guys who know how things work - that they should be given protection from their own stupidity. They WROTE DOWN that they thought their fund was going to blow up. Damn straight that's evidence, and of course they'll try to hide it.

    I
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    Image of celery celery
    10/09/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: I worry about the ends justify the means attitude here. Is the idea that we should be able to access deleted email if and only if the emailer is a criminal? Kind of a hard call to make.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm glad it worked out in this particular case. But I wouldn't trust the government to get it right every time, or even most of the time.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    10/09/09

    In reply to Any Data You Give to Google Can and Will Be Used Against You
    Freedom to fully utilize the Internet isn't free - it costs a $1.09
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    Image of ninety_nine ninety_nine
    10/09/09

    In reply to Any Data You Give to Google Can and Will Be Used Against You
    Huh, I missed that part where the Internet was exempt from discovery.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/09/09

    In reply to Any Data You Give to Google Can and Will Be Used Against You
    This is why I loathe Google... even though it makes up a decent majority of my life, dammit.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    10/09/09

    @Conchie Birdie: if you were an investor in that fund, or a person being harrassed by someone hiding behind a gmail account.... I'm not one for active Secret Police, but Google isn't doing that, they are reactive, not proactive, in giving information.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/09/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: To clarify - My disdain is over the fact that Google has so much power and information at their fingertips. The way in which they use it seems like a more complicated matter concerning where the lines of privacy are drawn.

    Wow, I apologize for that last sentence.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    10/09/09

    @Conchie Birdie: oh - sorry - got it. Google to me is like COnde Nast for others in publishing - doubt I'd work there, just nice to know it exists (in that "built in a garage and made a billion dollars" way).
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/09/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: I admire the whole "story" and reasoning behind Google, but the amount of power they hold with all of that information - holy crap.

    A few former friends work there... seems a bit too 'cultish' for me.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/09/09

    In reply to Any Data You Give to Google Can and Will Be Used Against You
    So is there a legal recourse people have to have their historical emails deleted when they shut down the account? Or does Google just have blackmail rights over the entire world?
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/09/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Of course they do! Google will eventually take over the entire world, and not even papal rule could stop them!
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    Image of goetz goetz
    10/09/09

    @Conchie Birdie: That's why Pope Rizzo Ratzinger uses Hotmail.
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    Image of nozer nozer
    10/09/09

    @Conchie Birdie: What about paypal rule?
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/09/09

    @nozer: I'm sure Goog can keep it at (e)bay.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    10/08/09

    In reply to FBI Director Chastised by Wife for Being Common Internet Sucker
    He changed all his passwords to FBIMoron. And no one would have guessed, til now.
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    Image of Glib and Bitchy Glib and Bitchy
    10/08/09

    In reply to FBI Director Chastised by Wife for Being Common Internet Sucker
    Treasury secretary Geithner almost lost his appointment because couldn't do his taxes. FBI chief almost falls for Internet fraud. It's like mom said: Do as I say, not as I do.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    10/08/09

    In reply to FBI Director Chastised by Wife for Being Common Internet Sucker
    It's Willie Sutton all over again. Why are the scammers all on the Internet? Because that's where the money is!
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