Re: Public Notice: Google is watching you.

From: Tom Potter (tdp_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 11/05/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:58:08 +0800

"Uncle Al" <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message
news:418A4F9E.E4E76354@hate.spam.net...
> John Schoenfeld wrote:
> >
> > It occured to me that g-mail is a massive scam.
>
> http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html
> http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/quack.html
> <http://www.firehead.org/~jessh/film/kubrick/Kubrick-Psycho.html>
> <http://www.naturalchild.com/elliott_barker/prisons.html>
>
> > The only way to get a g-mail account is to be "invited" by an existing
> > g-mail user. This unique registration process has no apparant
> > advantages to google other than allowing it to build a massive graph
> > to model it's users and their friends.
>
> No friends, Shoenfeld? Uncle Al has three unused invitations...

It appears that the poster has few friends
and wasn't able to use all of his invitations.

There is no doubt that knowing how all of the people
on the planet link up is very powerful information,
and is worth billions of dollars to advertisers,
companies, governments, organizations, politicians,
people interested in manipulating politicians,
people interested in forming profiles on other folks for whatever reason,
etc.

As I posted before,
I used a similar system about 15 years ago
to build profiles of my employees,
and applied for a patent on the basic idea.

I could tell who was
sleeping with who,
taking dope,
being treated by doctors,
searching for a new job,
hen pecked, mommy's boy,
liked sports, movies, concerts,
stealing money from the company, etc.

In fact, I might have showed the system
to one of the Google founders who lived in my area.
( As I did to many computer literate folks.)

The Google email tactic is not a scam,
but is a powerful tool,
which like all tools,
can be used for good or evil. 

--
Tom Potter     http://home.earthlink.net/~tdp

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