In the last several classes we discussed the issues with Google. Google as a start up company had done a lot of things that the pubic did not agree with such as copyrights, privacy and

Concerns that arose with Google was their copyrights and how the value of other industries were decreasing because of it. Even though it is beneficial as a college student to get the text free online it devalues printing companies but also those who wrote the books. People were outraged because there were laws in place that suggested that Google had no right to do this but Google still continues to allow this avenue for poor college students today.

Another issue that arose was privacy. People have suggested that using the internet gives up one’s privacy and this I agree with. But the ultimate question is what are they doing with our information? It was said that, ” Google planned to scan the content of users’ e-mails and to insert relevant ads to the right-hand side of the e-mail just as it did when a user conducted a search on Google.” This was a huge controversy that the article “Google Controversies” had risen. Not only because our email were being read but also that they were being scanned and stored by computers. Another question that should be asked is even is computers and not humans are scanning our emails, why are they being stored?What are they using our emails for? So that violates our privacy once again. Google is such a huge entity on its own that as it keeps expanding, our freedom and privacy decreases. In class people asked if it’s too late to do anything about this’d I say it is too late. People have put up all their information on the internet and Google has access to all of that so in that case people have access to our information with a swipe of a card. We are the product.