The DnD Sanctuary

Is   [glow=green,2,300]GOOGLE[/glow]   getting   [glow=black,2,300]too big?[/glow]

Are they amassing an inventory of your personal data/information?

If they have, how have they, & what steps have you personally taken to stop them?

Have you unwittingly given   GOOGLE,   or any other online entity for that matter, answers to seemingly simple questions, only to later figure out that if put together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the information could be  way more  than you would have ever given them if you were asked for it directly?

Do you have any other personal examples or experiences you're willing to share with us, of similar breaches to your online privacy you've been aware of, & how did you thwart their attempts --- or did you??

Are they amassing an inventory of your personal data/information?

I can't tell if they do or don't but there is another entity which does for sure.
It isn't hard to guess which entity I'm referring to.

Quote from: SmileyFaze on 2014-03-19, 04:35:41

Are they amassing an inventory of your personal data/information?

I can't tell if they do or don't but there is another entity which does for sure.
It isn't hard to guess which entity I'm referring to.

Lemme guess. The NSA. The CIA? The FBI?
All of the above?

And every other intelligence agency on the planet? :right:

And every other intelligence agency on the planet? :right:

You mean we're not the only outliers on the globe? Disappointed!
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Lemme guess. The NSA. The CIA? The FBI?
All of the above?

Usually only the first guess is the right one  :P

And every other intelligence agency on the planet? :right:

Theoretically yes but they still have a long way to go untill they will be able to compete :devil:

Quote from: Macallan on 2014-03-19, 13:15:28

And every other intelligence agency on the planet? :right:

Theoretically yes but they still have a long way to go untill they will be able to compete :devil:

Not for lack of trying. I bet the NSA's budget is to everyone else's what the US military budget is to everyone else's though.

The biggest threat of collected compromising data seems to fall on the ISPs. Google's purposes are mostly advertising. Plenty of people on Facebook give away far more freely.

Can't say I'm worried regardless. I'm not an activist or terrorist. If they patch together all my accounts I'll prove not worth the effort. It'd be hard to find someone not annoyed by something going on. The NSA will go too far one day and laws will corrected it. Says my faith in humanity. Until then valuable lessons can be learned so meh.

(*To whom it may concern: I love America. Don't drone me bro.)

Can't say I'm worried regardless. I'm not an activist or terrorist.

Exactly my thought ;)
We have nothing to hide (https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?PHPSESSID=adecf1374d5e70aa7b0429e07b3d9e58&topic=105.msg13630#msg13630)

You can find details at.
http://omgsecretnazigoogle.ytmnd.com/]

And

http://jimjongun.dnd.snowden.com/

Last week I closed my Google account but reopened it when I received an email from Google warning me that there could be serious repercussions. I laughed it off for five minutes, then re-opened my account.

I'm not a brave person. I stutter when my wife walks into the room.

PS Google tried to sell my data but found no takers. How do I know that? I Googled it.
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Hero Member and proud of it!

Google has adopted a new corporate logo.
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Concisely, Google is too big.

(Oh groan am I maybe leaning towards agreeing with Smileyfaze?)

Concisely, Google is too big.

(Oh groan am I maybe leaning towards agreeing with Smileyfaze?)

Eventually we all do.

I suppose if we deliberately posted, several times, lots of key words like bomb, and so on and so forth, we would automatically be registered in the NSA's (or whoever's) machine-sweep of the internet and gain more members, several of which would be here to monitor all the perfidious things we might be saying or thinking. We could have a new game in the Lounge called something like "Find the Spook" where we could enjoy ourselves speculating which was the CIA Spook, which the KGB, which the Taliban and so on.

The first person to be extradited would be the winner.

One way of raising membership I suppose. :devil:

We have two KGB members here...guess their handles and win an all-paid vacation to beautiful Wessex, dinners at the Wessex McDonalds and lodging at the beautiful Wessex Motel 6.
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With so many spy agencies in your homeland they would be squabbling for to be the ones to get there. Must have the world record for such organisations.  :doh:

Quote from: rjhowie on 2014-03-21, 23:02:52

Concisely, Google is too big.

(Oh groan am I maybe leaning towards agreeing with Smileyfaze?)

Eventually we all do.

Or else.

Sometimes though, we're our own worst enemy....................

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Is   GOOGLE   getting   too big?

Nope. Is Americans that are getting too small.

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2014-03-22, 09:46:09

Quote from: rjhowie on 2014-03-21, 23:02:52

Concisely, Google is too big.

(Oh groan am I maybe leaning towards agreeing with Smileyfaze?)

Eventually we all do.

Or else.

Plot twist: Smiley takes a step back from the retina scanner and considers not opening the vault. [/Ominous music]

It's in SCARE CAPITALS. Must be EVIL :right:
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Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2014-03-22, 09:46:09

Quote from: rjhowie on 2014-03-21, 23:02:52

Concisely, Google is too big.

(Oh groan am I maybe leaning towards agreeing with Smileyfaze?)

Eventually we all do.

Or else.

It's the guns that do it.
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I agree.