Google Is Taking Over the World

I just found this article on CNN about Google and its prominence within the web. Google is now a platform for email, blogging and tracking web traffic. In the development stages at Google are online payment services as well as plans to become an all encompassing digital library. Within a few years, Google could now who you are, what sites you visit, what you buy online and who you are emailing.

While it is nice to see Google moving in the direction of a one stop shopping site, it does raise some concerns about privacy and antitrust issues. With all of the internet security compromises of late, doesn't it seem really easy that someone could compromise a Google server and steal all of this information from one place? It would seem that Google is putting itself at risk by having all of this information in one place as hackers and law enforcement alike would do all that they can to use the information stored at Google for their own uses.

We have talked a great deal about privacy issues in class and for good reason. People need to feel that their information is safe online and not going to be comprised by people with bad intentions. In the political profession, we need to be keenly aware of keeping fundraising, volunteer and other information that we collect online as safe and secure as possible.