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Google is well known company, I believe even aliens are familiar with it. Google has given us great new improved possibilities, like search, mail, document management, advertisement and so on.  And I am using them as well as others.

But what is the price for all that ‘perfect’ services? Our privacy!

The search results are perfect to your taste . The advertisement is perfectly matching your interests? Isn’t that good? No!

We all know that Google is monitoring and saving our activities on the Web. It analyzes out habits, tastes, interests. Our personality is analyzed and used as information, what can be also used against us. For example Gmail. The advertisement depends on mail you write/ receive. This means Gmail is reading our mail. If there was information what you would not like to share?

Google Docs.  Sharing our documents. Remember some time ago when documents, what were not allowed to be viewed for users who were removed from the sharing list, were viewed by them? If those documents were important, like company plans for future? You could think that this is insane, who will share so important documents online? But it is true.

Google Maps, Google Earth. Now even simple citizens can easily find where military bases are, for example. It was quite interesting, viewing the Area- 51 from Google Earth, while it was told not to be existing…

Conclusion.

Google is doing a great job. But we must be aware also. Google knows what we are searching, what to we like, what we are posting, writing, sharing, viewing. You like Google reading your mail to create ads? No spot on the planet is not covered with Google satellite. And now Google is picturing the streets everywhere. You like to be accidentally pictured half- naked in your personal swimming pool? I think not.

I am not against Google at all. I just want to mark at my Google accaount ‘Do not save any information from this person’.