Googlenoia
Der Internetgigant kennt bald jeden unserer Schritte. Es ist Zeit, dass die demokratische Gesellschaft sich wehrt.
The Internet giant is about to know every move we make. It is time for a democratic society to take action.
Thank you, Ms. Gaschke, for demonstrating a certain familiar paranoia when it comes to innovation, again. For one of the signs of a democratic society is that its members are free to choose - even the Internet services they use. In other words:
If you are afraid of Google, don't use it.
Keep your personal information for yourself, don't upload pictures of yourself, don't enter your address where it is visible to the public, don't use Google for web searches (use Bing instead, a product by Internet White Knight Microsoft - good one, huh?). Just don't.
Or, if you can't do this (for instance because Google's services are indispensable for you), please understand that information has become a tradeable value, not just for Google, but for yourself. You have to choose how you pay for services: with money (the traditional way, still in use, even on the Net), or with information. The right of informational self-determination (Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung) is not about keeping your personal data secret, it is about your right to do with your data whatever you want.
