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Google already dominates the Internet as a major search engine, and now it has the potential to take control of your home, by gaining access to all your smart gadgets and domestic appliances.
Google has recently purchased Nest Labs, a company that has been developing smart thermostat controls, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Google paid $3.2billion for Nest Labs with the intention of allowing everyone to connect their home appliances to the Internet.
This means that in he future Google will not only have control of your thermostats, alarm systems and smoke detectors, it would also gain remote access to televisions, ovens, fridges and other computerized appliances.
What is most disturbing is how, when using high-tech devices in your home, you will lose your privacy. Google will be able to ascertain what you are eating, the temperature of your home, your schedule and your movements.
This is nothing new. Everyone who uses a smartphone, a social network, photo sharing, and other social activities on the Internet should be aware of how their privacy is being compromised. Each click of a mouse provides some sort of data about you and your online habits, for the benefit of companies such as Google.
Data Gathering
- The acquisition of Nest suggests that Google intends to gather a lot of personal data which can be sold on to advertisers and any organization that can use information about your personal habits.
- Already Google has adapted its AdSense advertising program to work with its email service, so users see ads based the subject of emails sent and received through Gmail. Owners of smart fridges and ovens with Wi-Fi connection will in the future see ads that reflect their shopping habits and personal food preferences.
If you have ever used Google, for anything you have ever done on the Internet, you have already provided information about your online research and viewing habits. If you use Gmail, Google knows the content of your emails. It also knows all about your social media activities, if you use Google+ and Google+ Hangouts.
Risk of Hacking
- Up until now, this sort of privacy issue has not entered the home and your life outside of the Internet is kept private. Your use of smoke alarms, air conditioning and heating systems have not previously been accessible by anyone other than yourself, with the development of smart systems provided by Nest, it could be possible for a hacker to infiltrate your system and take control of your home.
The acquisition of Nest by Google is worrying a lot of people by creating concern about issues of privacy. The idea of hackers being able to gather personal information in order to take control of our homes is suddenly no longer just something that happens in a science fiction novel or a horror movie.
Google is seeing lot of negative media coverage about its plans for Nest, in particular from CNN. The majority of people do not want to feel they are being spied on in their own home and Google is facing a fight against public opinion.
It is not going to be easy to convince the general public about the benefits, if any, of allowing Google to have access to all our high-tech home appliances and smart gadgets. Most people will agree that this is not a great idea.
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