If You Don't Know, Google Does!

Although Google is a very good search engine and we use it almost every time we browse the Internet, but Google, on the other hand, possesses too much power over our searches. In Siva Vaidhyanathan's The Googlization of Everything explains how Google possesses too much power. Google has the power to interfere with our "privacy," according to Siva. In the article, he explains five "privacy interfaces" (page 95) that is known about us. Each of these interfaces offers varying levels of control and surveillance. The five privacy interfaces are person to peer, person to power, person to firm, person to state, and person to public.

Google has too much power and is one of the biggest surveillance camera in the world. Google allows someone to type in what they need to find and then saves their searches, allowing others to search for what they were searching for, giving someone's private search away. How does Google take one's identity away? Simple, when someone is searching for someone online, they can just type in their names and Google will have many searches of their names. In my opinion, the two worse types of searches that Google has are the images and the world map. The problem with the image search is that when you type someone's name and click image search, many different pictures show up including the person your looking for. When you use Google's map search, you can type in someone's address and Google can give you the picture location of what your looking for. These two types of searches for Google, in my opinion, are the two worse privacy interferences Google can have because Google basically can give away all your information just from what others have searched for in past times, exposing you and your privacy.

In this video, you can see someone is looking at what people search for on Google. According to Siva's "privacy interfaces," this person is affecting person to public because he is searching for what people tend to search for most of the time. At this interface, which is located online, people have found their lives exposed and their names and faces ridiculed. This random person is on Google searching for what others have searched for in the past. Now, the first thought that comes to mind is that this person can be a ex-con, rapist, or even a killer, because is he searching for what others have searched for. This affects "person to public" because he gives away identities and privacy away by posting this video on YouTube, which is allowing others to view his video and looking at what people have searched for most. This video can also have other viewers type in what he typed and get more information about it.

Google is the best search engine and helps out alot with our computerized lives, but on the other hand, it possesses too much power over our privacies and identities.