Comments on: Google Eavesdropping Software

By: zupakomputer

zupakomputer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:14:55 +0000

Spoken? They (in general) do that with your thoughts already. It’s called fake-synchronicity-manufacturing.

And the saddest part is that they actually think they are serving you and you somehow want that in your life. Er no I don’t, I want things to go back to how they were a bit more, like when jobs existed and I had the money to buy those products you think I want that I’m not actually interested in. Back when the universe did serve me up a lot more of what I had in fact ‘ordered’, mainly because you weren’t there getting in the way with that psi-spying.

By: IntrusiveGod

IntrusiveGod — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:51:21 +0000

It’s ok, there’s probably a portion there for privacy settings or customization of both end users. When will they release it for public?

By: msk

msk — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:33:51 +0000

“The first thing that came out of our mouths when we heard that Google is working on a system that listens to what’s on your TV playing in the background, and then serves you relevant adverts, was “that’s cool, but dangerous”.”

Thats not cool at all, thats just f***ed up. I am suprised they would even be talking about doing something that is so invasive. The fact that they are apparently seriously considering this makes me wonder what else they are planning on.

in response to Vakin VonSnizzSnakker somebody should do a test and see if that is true.

By: Ishkur

Ishkur — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:12:22 +0000

hmmmm, that wouldnt really affect me that much for a while. My current comp doesnt have a mic.

By: Vakin VonSnizzSnakker

Vakin VonSnizzSnakker — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:36:40 +0000

This might sound far-fetched and, understandably, many of you are dubious of this spying via microphone but I am certain it is already happening. I, more than once, have gotten junk email (gmail) or an ad in gmail that contained a name or other noun word that I had recently SPOKEN within near proxcimity of my PC. I would dismiss it as co-incidence or assume that I, or someone corressponding with me, had actually included the word in an email and if I went back and searched I’d find that key or target word. I mean, surely, google is not eavesdropping on spoken conversations that transpired in my home…Then I read about their technology to just that very thing (well TV audio, suppossedly not people’s conversation) and I now know that that very thing had happened. One friend of mine had, on his own, said he noticed the same occurence of things he had spoken turning up in a target ad. So that’s two people who noticed this prior to the technology being discussed by google themselves. And this is another really creepy thing. I have, for certain, had target spam/junk emails contain terms or words lifted from text messages on my cell phone. For sure for real. This is such a major invasion of privacy it is almost overwhelming. To arms? To the presses? Or to the pc with it’s convienience and technology to just roll over and give up, give in, take it in the backside and comply like sheep and bury our heads in the sand like an ostrich?

By: Franco

Franco — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:21:11 +0000

I cannot believe that anyone would allow the intercept of their private audio within their home. You would have to be the number one canidate for a village idiot job.

With this surveillance technology, your TV, videos, conversations, and intimate sounds will be available for the whole world to hear. I can see the websites popping up to play audio selections according to topic…sex, drugs and politics!

Google….the Hackers are drooling in anticipation of your software being made available to them. You can’t be serious if you think it can’t be cracked. The Hackers of the world should target Google Execs first. Maybe then they will wake up and smell what they are trying to sell us.

By: iskorpitx

iskorpitx — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:44:55 +0000

Mic is ok but do you have a mute button?

By: SicKn3sS

SicKn3sS — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:37:36 +0000

That’s why my microphone has a mute button :D

By: hobot

hobot — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:45:44 +0000

While software might be able to enable the mic under an OS, it will not be able to use my cut-out switch for a long, long time.

By: Ritec

Ritec — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:50:01 +0000

This sounds a little far fetched but it definetly does not surprise me. Google needs to keep inventing and reinventing new ways of serving ads, its major source of income, in order to keep those $400.00 a share stocks from going down. Google will reach a point where “don’t be evil, their motto, just won’t work anymore.

Let’s see what the future brings, but it looks dark froim this angle.