Google developing eavesdropping software

They know all about you...

Melissa,
These were articles sent some time ago about the information that google stores and would like to store.
It got me thinking though about a further step to listening - what happens afterwards? What is the relationship between listening, and then re-telling? Where does the boundary between public and private lie? Do we really say what we mean? Should we always say what we mean? Should we say it anyway and understand that the listener can read between the lines to hear our emotions rather than our words? And does this mean that listening is more than just opening your ears?


Google developing eavesdropping software
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/03/google_eavesdropping_software/


Every time you use an internet search engine, your inquiry is stored in a huge database. Would you like such personal information to become public knowledge? Yet for thousands of AOL customers, that nightmare has just become a reality. Andrew Brown reports on an incident that has exposed how much we divulge to Google & co

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/search/story/0,,1859785,00.html