"Creepy Google" Does it Again: Spying on YOU

"The more things that are wrong, the more we must pretend they're all right..." said one of the grave robbing plotters in Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of body snatchers.

And so Google has no difficulty in pretending that their latest purchase isn't another Big Brother scam. The Wire:

The interesting part of this latest atrocity, is that Google is now doing it most every day, week and month, so the more they do it, the more everyone accepts it.

Sure, The Wire calls them "Creepy." Most everyone is coming around to realize this monopoly, like Amazon, like North Korea, like Syria, like ISIS, is "creepy." So what. On with it.

Going back to a favorite gripe, this is EXACTLY what happened with piracy. At first there were some grumbles and glares when Tofu Hut and other early blogs began stealing individual songs. There were a little more when the Dutch Douche and his friends began to find their egomania salved with whole album downloads. Now, I routinely see links for professional thieves like the "new records releases" dotcom or whatever they call themselves, and Zinfuck and others, tossed around social media along with YouTube. Nobody questions piracy anymore, or getting all the shit for free.

So nobody questions that Google can easily pay obscene $555 MILLION prices for some little computer nerd's start-up toy while they continue to pay pennies to YouTube uploaders. Google deliberately ignores violations of copyright and of decency, and won't spend money to hire a few employees to check flagged blogs. Their search engine still leads everyone to the "Goodies" and they force copyright owners to go through hoops and report each html that is in violation...and giggle when it all comes back the next day with no suspension to the blogger and "gee, we don't have the technology to see the same footprint all over again."

We've come to accept that anyone can wave a cell phone camera at you and record you, and that Google glasses and Google maps are ok, and so what if Google checks your g-mail and wherever you go on the Net.

We've also come to accept that CCTV cameras are monitoring what we buy in the store, and how we sit on the bus. Did anyone mount a protest about this shit? No, it was "Oh, well, the store has to monitor for thieves, and if something happens on the bus, they'll have the perp in no time." Except nobody is monitoring the monitors...the guys who might be training their spy cameras in stores at the ladies changing room, up a skirt, down a blouse, or zooming in on the numbers of a credit card.

The cops? They won't go get the CCTV footage if a woman complains about being groped and lewdly propositioned by some wanker on the street. Your landlord? He's not going to check his camera to see who wrote the graffiti on the wall, which would only require him to fill out forms, take the person to court, and waste time better spent counting his money.

Yeah, "Creepy Google has done it again. And they will do it again and again and again.

"And have you seen their latest Google Doodle? LOL!"