Goo-Goo-Googley Eyes
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The Guardian Unlimited headlines an opinion piece: Google 'will be able to keep tabs on us all':
— Larry, Serious Organised Monkey, Light Reading
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The internet will hold so much digital data in five years that it will be possible to find out what an individual was doing at a specific time and place, an expert said yesterday.
Nigel Gilbert, a professor heading a Royal Academy of Engineering study into surveillance, said people would be able to sit down and type into Google "what was a particular individual doing at 2.30 yesterday and would get an answer".
The answer would come from a range of data, for instance video recordings or databanks which store readings from electronic chips. Such chips embedded in people's clothes could track their movements...
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"Significant intrusion into the privacy of a small minority is justified to protect the safety and wellbeing of the majority," he said.
— Larry, Serious Organised Monkey, Light Reading