{"id":18094,"date":"2010-04-09T18:37:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T02:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18094"},"modified":"2010-04-09T18:39:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T02:39:12","slug":"googled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18094","title":{"rendered":"Googled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading Ken Auletta&#8217;s 2009 book <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Googled-End-World-As-Know\/dp\/1594202354\"><em>Googled<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is filled with privacy experts decrying Google.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t share this concern. I think much of this is generational. Kids today are generally more comfortable sharing information about themselves on Facebook etc than their parents.<\/p>\n<p>For as long as I&#8217;ve been online, I&#8217;ve been unable to avoid people freaking out about privacy. I&#8217;ve heard people worry about the innocuous Patriot Act (is there any documented case of this information being misued?). I don&#8217;t care if government computers track my phone calls if that will make my country significantly safer.<\/p>\n<p>With MySpace and Facebook and blogs, people are sharing more information about themselves than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve designed my life so that I can pretty much say and do what I want. <\/p>\n<p>Looking at people on Facebook, I see that many of them are not particularly worried about privacy either. <\/p>\n<p>As long as you are not a terrorist or some other kind of criminal, and as long as you are not pathologically afraid of being known, then Google and social media pose little threat.<\/p>\n<p>I think Google is great in almost everything they have done. I have about 100 positive feelings about Google for every critical one. I wish I could develop a relationship with a woman this positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading Ken Auletta&#8217;s 2009 book Googled. It is filled with privacy experts decrying Google. I don&#8217;t share this concern. I think much of this is generational. Kids today are generally more comfortable sharing information about themselves on Facebook etc &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18094\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,21],"tags":[31599,30168,21864,21862,21863],"class_list":["post-18094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-personal","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-government-computers","tag-ken-auletta","tag-privacy-experts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18096,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094\/revisions\/18096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}