>From Google's own website, a little info about what they want to do. They
>don't actually want to record your conversations, or even send them back to
>Google, but instead they are converting ambient sounds to signatures locally
>on the PC and sending that back to aid in target driven ads.
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/interactive-tv-conference-and-best.html
I am not much of a conspiracy freak, but this direction from Google is a bit
scary to me. Not only in the amount of info they would have of your private,
off computer, lives - but also in how it can be misused.
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Lance A. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Oct 16, 2006 12:08 PM
>To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[email protected]>
>Subject: [TriLUG] Re: Search Engine question
>
>Eric H Christensen wrote:
>> Ummmm... I'll have to agree that this is an urban legend. I think they
>> have better things to do than to try to hack into the millions of
>> computers that are out there, try to figure out which ones have
>> microphones and which ones have web cams, then figure out how to grab
>> the data, then figure out which ones they can actually hear something
>> useful on, then have someone actually listen to each one to try to hear
>> what is going on.
>
>This is not an urban legend.
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/03/google_eavesdropping_software/
>
>Google is working on technology that will monitor your computers
>microphone and listen to the ambient audio in the room, process it for
>useful information and use that to help tune Good Desktop and/or your
>use of Good search better.
>
>I would hope that you would have to choose to install this software as
>opposed to Google hacking into your computer to do it covertly.
>
>--[Lance]
>
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