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John McAfee Lambastes Google for Destruction of Privacy

         

mrengine

4:53 pm on Aug 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Security expert and former fugitive John McAfee isn't enamored with all things Google. Speaking Saturday at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas, McAfee suggested Google's influence on society is decidedly pernicious.

"If everybody knew everything about everybody else, what would human behavior become?" McAfee asked, according to the BBC. "We would be limited to the least common denominator of human behavior: those behaviors which no one would find offensive."

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5:24 pm on Aug 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

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I think that's true of most things, not just Google.
That little bit of mystery is something to be sought after, and certainly in human relationships it's really important, imho.

incrediBILL

5:43 pm on Aug 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

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"We would be limited to the least common denominator of human behavior: those behaviors which no one would find offensive."


That's FANTASTIC!

The church has been trying to accomplish this since the dawn of history to no avail except for the masses which probably wouldn't do anything bad in the first place but might need a reminder. That's the whole purpose of the "10 Commandments" in the first place! The whole point of religion is to scare people into behaving in a way that's socially acceptable.

If search engines, not just Google, can accomplish what religion failed to do, we could save 10% of our income and stop all the nonsense.

However, forget Google, let's just start with the subset of humanity being reported by the masses on Yelp!. Some of them change their behavior but most places people complain about on Yelp! just keep doing the same things people complain about like it doesn't matter.

I know, I've been to places where the Yelp! complaints didn't matter and the behaviors persisted.

Even worse, people continue to frequent those places instead of avoiding them in an effort to force them to fix the problems.

Therefore, the whole premise set forth by John McAfee is arguably void and if he were smart and not just paranoid, he'd have drawn the same conclusions I just did.

P.S. People pick their noses, scratch their butts and worse when they know they're being watched by a security camera.