Will Google Bring About The End of Privacy

MEGHA MARIAM JOSE

ently evil about it as long as you're well aware of what's happening. At the end of the day, you are dealing with a profit seeking company that's providing you with some sort of service in exchange for some manner of money making.

The line of our private space had become vague now because Google knows even about our most personal stuffs. And there rises the question whether Google would bring about the end of Privacy?

Whenever I think about how Google has a watch over our lives, I get reminded about George Orwells 'Big Brother'. Its pretty much the same situation. Just like how Big Brother monitored every citizens life, Google records each over made by us, it knows whom we contact, where we go, what we watch and more. It's actually scary of we think about it.

Ads which pops up in our Instagram or Facebook shows how Google sells our searching habits to higher bidders.

If we search for a Bluetooth speaker in Google, within a few minutes we can see an advertisement about the latest deals in speakers in our Instagram handle. If Google has a track on our needs at the moment, it obviously has track on our personal lives too. These small ads are enough to realise what value Google gives to our Privacy.

But, if we look for another perspective, Google is a business. It's isn't a charitable organisation to offer its services for free. It has to find its way to make its profit. As far we know Google doesn't share personal information. It just uses our data to customise the ads according to our needs. Advertising is a legitimate model, and there's nothing inher-

We have all wished for a delete button in life just like there is in Google. But the truth is that, nothing is ever deleted from Google records. Because with our advanced technology anything can be retrieved. So Google doesn't even offer the basic privacy of premenantly erasing the data which we do not wish to store. Whatever business may it be, I don't think sharing our searches for money making is ethical.

Even if they have their justification, that they just uses the data that are relevant for their business, that is also a serious violation of Privacy. Google has to take the responsibility of valuing their customers Privacy. After all, Privacy is a basic human right!

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