Reasons To Be Scared Of Google

1-Google developed a neural computer
network that learned what a CAT was
without human interaction!
This fact may leave you scratching your
head wondering what the heck that means,
and while the technology is extremely
advanced, the concept is actually quite
simple. Besides reinventing the world as we
know it with new gadgets such as the
Google Glasses and the Google Car, they
have now created one of Earth’s largest
self-learning “unsupervised” neural
networks, which roughly translates to a
robot brain.
The computer is so sophisticated it is able
to perform tasks considered impossible
using traditional algorithms, such as
finding cute cats on the Internet. To test
the network, a team fed the machine 10
million thumbnails of random YouTube
videos. Without telling the software what to
look for, by itself the program sorted the
data in a hierarchical fashion, forming
groups of similar videos.
After “watching” the YouTube videos,
scientists asked the program what a cat
looked like, and amazingly it created its
own image, shown on the side, from prior
data that looks almost exactly like a cat! In
other words, this proved that the software
is able to think for itself and recall images
just like a human brain
2-Google maps uses anonymous cell phone
data to give its live traffic feeds.
If you’ve ever used the mobile Google
Maps application to navigate your way
through an unfamiliar place, then you’ve
probably also unknowingly returned Google
the favour. When you choose to enable
Google Maps with My Location, your phone
sends anonymous pieces of data describing
how fast you’re moving, back to Google.
A collection of different people’s speeds
from across thousands of phones moving
through city at a given times, gives a pretty
accurate picture of live traffic conditions.
Google Mobile’s privacy policy includes an
entire list of private information that
Google is allowed to gather; your phone
number, your carrier, basic usage stats
about your device, etc. Google claims that
it uses this information to create practical
solutions and create a better user
experience.
3-A Google programmer accidentally
blocked off every website in the Google
index for an hour!
Google has programmers whose job is to
block websites with malware. They do their
work by entering dangerous websites into a
registry for Google to block. The computer
than warns users of the dangers of
accessing such a site, and won’t let them
on the site.
Basically, once a website is on Google’s
malware registry, no one will ever see the
site again. The problem came when one of
programmers entered just a slash into the
registry (/). As you will notice, every
website address contains slashes because
they are pretty much the punctuation of
web addresses.
Since the slash was on the registry every
website in the Google index was blocked
including Google websites. It was a horrible
mistake that, in effect, stopped the Internet
for working for 55 minutes until
programmers fixed the error. Google
quickly admitted their mistake and
apologized for the error.
Few remembered it after that sad, Internet-
free morning in 2009. It does show,
however, how huge a problem the slightest
error can make. It only takes a small detail
to completely derail the Internet!4-Google has developed a driverless car!
This new technology sounds as if it is right
out of a science fiction movie, and that’s
because it’s not far off. Over the past
several years Google engineers and
scientists have been working tirelessly at
Stanford Laboratories to develop a
technology that will change the way we live
in the upcoming decades: the Google Car.
This car is completely driverless. It
combines information from Goggle Street
View with artificial intelligence software
that communicates with a sensor on top of
the car, which in turn speaks to the wheels
and steering wheel to drive the car without
any human interference. So far the car has
clocked over 175,000 miles and had zero
accidents. h5-There’s a fake town on Google Maps!
The town is called Argleton and was located
south of a town called Ormskirk in England.
The supposed location of Argleton is an
abandoned field west of the A59 motorway.
The town was removed from google maps
in 2010, but it still lives on in the minds of
the internet and even has its own wikipedia
page!
Nobody is quite sure how the town came to
be on the map. One explanation is that it’s
a paper town, a fake place added to maps
to make counterfeits easier to spot.
Another example of a paper town would be
Agloe, New York. This town was created by
a map company but was made real by a
man who founded the Agloe General store
in its supposed location, therefore bringing
it into existence.
Google, however, sticks by the explanation
that an error was made when creating the
map. They are still not sure how it came to
be in their databases.
The mystery of Argleton caused a stir in the
local community when it first showed up.
One man even walked to the field where it
was supposed to be, just to see if it really
did exist!
6-Universal Music has a deal with Google
that lets them take down ANY video they
want on YouTube!
This fact came to light when Universal
Music Group (UMG) took down a video
released by MegaUpload for 'copyright
infringement.'
The video included may celebrities like
Kanye West, Chris Brown and Kim
Kardashian singing in support of
MegaUpload. This video was released
because UMG classified MegaUpload as a
'rogue site' and one of the biggest threats
in online piracy.
UMG does NOT have a valid copyright claim
to take down the song under DCMA law. So
MegaUpload sued UMG for the takedown.
When UMG responded to the court, they
indicated that the video was not taken
down according to DCMA law. Rather, they
have a special contract with Google that
lets them take down any video on YouTube,
for any reason, even if they do not own the
copyright to it!
There's no telling where this case will end
up, but it's scary to think these are the
same people asking for a law that allows
them take down ANY website for whatever
they deem is copyright infringement
7-A woman sued Google for showing her
underwear on Street View.
A Japanese woman claimed that images of
her underwear hanging on a clothesline
severely worsened her obsessive-
compulsive disorder and caused her to fear
everything she does throughout the day.
She sued the company for a sum of $
7,000.however, Google Street View just
captures photographs of various public
locations around the world. If her
underwear was clearly visible from the
street, it could be seen by both the general
public AND Google's cameras. She should
not hang out her drawers in plain sight if
she is really that concerned about her
privacy! But what if the next picture is
about you in a bikini?

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