[PiN-diskusjon] [Doctorow] Scroogled in the Wall Street Journal (fwd)

[Thomas Gramstad]

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:31:18 +0200
From: Cory Doctorow <doctorow at craphound.com>
Subject: [Doctorow] Scroogled in the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal just published a short interview with me about 
my story Scroogled, which appears in Radar this month. It's a 
commissioned piece where the brief was, "Write a story about the day 
Google turned evil," and it's the first Creative Commons-licensed 
story to appear in Radar Magazine.

> WSJ.com: Are there signs of that at Google? Are they doing something 
> that concerns you?
> 
> Mr. Doctorow: Sure, absolutely, there have been lots of signs of 
> that. I mean, one of the things that I think is in Google's DNA is a 
> real tension about, on the one hand, being good to people, but on 
> the other hand, acquiring as much information about them as they 
> can, under the rubric that it allows them to be better to people.
> 
> And it does, a lot of the time. There are lots of ways in which 
> Google knowing more about you makes Google better for you. But 
> without much regard to what's happening in the world around us, in 
> an era in which the national security apparatus has turned into a 
> kind of lumbering, savage, giant toddler, it behooves us to not 
> leave things within arm's reach that it might stick in its mouth. 
> And that includes things like my search history. And I'd prefer that 
> Google not be storing a lot of that stuff, especially today, 
> especially after Patriot [Act] and so on. They're inviting abuse, I 
> think, by doing that. The steps you don't save can't be subpoenaed. 
> And by saving them, Google is inviting a subpoena.
> 
> So Google's always had this kind of "We will collect all your 
> information, and it will belong to us, and you won't be able to take 
> it away, but it's OK because we'll only do good things for you" 
> attitude, and that's a bit of a problem.

WSJ Interview
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119073238834038729.html?mod=hps_us_inside_today

Scroogled:
http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2007/09/google_fiction_evil_dangerous_surveillance_control_1.php

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