[eye30]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25619723

 Google is teaming up with car manufacturers including Audi, Honda and Hyundai to integrate its Android operating system into their dashboards.

It would allow the apps and music on Android smartphones and tablets to work better with onboard car systems.

[Dazzler]

I like the sound of that ... 

[Phil №❶]

Bad idea IMO. 

[Dazzler]

Bad idea IMO. 

Why, because you use a Nokia phone?.. Android is far superior to windows! 

[Phil №❶]

No, like Apple, they collect information without users knowledge, or authority. The nsa will be a virtual passenger in your car.

[Dazzler]

No, like Apple, they collect information without users knowledge, or authority. The nsa will be a virtual passenger in your car.

If they want to get info about you they will get it one way or  the other. Like with a lot of things only the guilty need to be concerned and I doubt you are one of those!

[Phil №❶]

It's the principle of the matter, more than anything else. If the NSA want to track my movements, they can't have too much to do, IMO. The way of today's world is to offer a supposed feature or advantage, while covert background activites are taking place.

I still get email offers of trips to Darwin on the Ghan, just after we returned from our trip last year. It's obvious some profiling of my activities has been performed quite automatically. Google was the search engine on my comp whilst arranging bookings etc.

[asathorny]

It's the principle of the matter, more than anything else. If the NSA want to track my movements, they can't have too much to do, IMO. The way of today's world is to offer a supposed feature or advantage, while covert background activites are taking place.

I still get email offers of trips to Darwin on the Ghan, just after we returned from our trip last year. It's obvious some profiling of my activities has been performed quite automatically. Google was the search engine on my comp whilst arranging bookings etc.

Phill, it's to late lad.  This is the World we live in, ya can't turn the clock back.  The only way you can stay away from all this it to unplug your computer, throw your mobile away (better still smash it to smithereens) and go and live beyond the stump.

Alternately you can just accept the World and go with the flow 

[Phil №❶]

  Asa, but I feel better, now.

[Dazzler]

Even your Fly Buys card is spying on you.. Coles sends me emails when something I have bought before comes on special!    Although that can be handy at times!

[The Gonz]

There used to be a time when individuals could sell their privacy to marketing companies in a paid-to-surf scheme. Now they don't need to pay anyone and can track everyone.

[Phil №❶]

I think you may have had some involvement in this, Gonz.    EW gone commercial. 

[The Gonz]

I'm sworn to secrecy.

[Dazzler]

I'm sworn to secrecy.

You better not use Google then!