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[hbgator]

The internet will hold so much digital data in five years that it will be possible to find out what an individual was doing at a specific time and place, an expert said yesterday.
Nigel Gilbert, a professor heading a Royal Academy of Engineering study into surveillance, said people would be able to sit down and type into Google "what was a particular individual doing at 2.30 yesterday and would get an answer".

The answer would come from a range of data, for instance video recordings or databanks which store readings from electronic chips. Such chips embedded in people's clothes could track their movements. He told a privacy conference the internet would be capable of holding huge amounts of data very cheaply and patterns of information could be extracted very quickly. "Everything can be recorded for ever," he said.

He was speaking at a conference at which a report commissioned by Richard Thomas, the privacy watchdog, was launched. Mr Thomas has said Britain is "waking up to a surveillance society that is all around us" and that such "pervasive" surveillance is likely to spread.

Sir Stephen Lander, the head of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and former head of MI5, defended surveillance by the government.

"Significant intrusion into the privacy of a small minority is justified to protect the safety and wellbeing of the majority," he said.

[Grim]

Hmm, sounds like crap to me, they may know what peoples browsing habits etc are but how is Google gonna be able to track/provide information about the time I went to the toilet and took a dump unless I blog it and Googles robot caches it.

[aiolos]

They have the search engine, gmail, IM application and some other stuff. I read that they'll also provide profiles on politicians for the next american elections. Who knows what they'll do next. They are getting powerful and fast. I don't really like all that.

[jkf]

Grim @ Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:53 am wrote:

Hmm, sounds like crap to me, they may know what peoples browsing habits etc are but how is Google gonna be able to track/provide information about the time I went to the toilet and took a dump unless I blog it and Googles robot caches it.

The "Google Toilet Security... ". You'll have to start checking for 2 way mirrors
and hidden CAMs in the toilet... those same people that are doing the up-skirt
videos now have real jobs... LOL

They will be moving up in the world, performing a pubic injustice for Google, gathering
data on turd color, size, shape, frequency of visit, and demographics on the defecator.
(fuxxing bean counters... creating more useless jobs for themselves... 'turd metrics')

[Grim]

Bugger, maybe they'll pick up on the scent of the turd too!

New sales pitch:
"Google is now proud to present: Google WC Search, never before has a fresh turd been so easy to find using the www search engine. (Coming soon - Pee colour and ammonia content detector)"