“Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.” —Cardinal Richelieu
“We don’t know enough about you.” —Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life?
By Cory Doctorow
This new fiction story “SCROOGLED” BY Cory Doctorow that was published in “RADAR FICTION “ is not such fantastic as it could be imagined at first sight. Anyway one has to read it. Here is a short fragment of this story, more of the text you can find in my library.

CLEAN HANDS? Google knows your dirtiest little secrets
“She looked around, then nodded up at the tennis courts. “Top of the light pole there; don’t look,” she said. “That’s one of our muni WiFi access points. Wide-angle webcam. Face away from it when you talk.”
“In the grand scheme of things, it hadn’t cost Google much to wire the city with webcams. Especially when measured against the ability to serve ads to people based on where they were sitting. Greg hadn’t paid much attention when the cameras on all those access points went public—there’d been a day’s worth of blogstorm while people played with the new all-seeing toy, zooming in on various prostitute cruising areas, but after a while the excitement blew over.
Feeling silly, Greg mumbled, “You’re joking.”
“Come with me,” she said, turning away from the pole.
The dogs weren’t happy about cutting their walk short, and expressed their displeasure in the kitchen as Maya made coffee.
“We brokered a compromise with the DHS,” she said, reaching for the milk. “They agreed to stop fishing through our search records, and we agreed to let them see what ads got displayed for users.”
Greg felt sick. “Why? Don’t tell me Yahoo was doing it already…”
“No, no. Well, yes. Sure. Yahoo was doing it. But that wasn’t the reason Google went along. You know, Republicans hate Google. We’re overwhelmingly registered Democratic, so we’re doing what we can to make peace with them before they clobber us. This isn’t P.I.I.”—Personally Identifying Information, the toxic smog of the information age—”It’s just metadata. So it’s only slightly evil.”
(photo taken from radaronline.com)