Google is spying on You

"Google has every e-mail you ever sent or received on Gmail. It has every search you ever made, the contents of every chat you ever had over Google Talk. It holds a record of every telephone conversation you had using Google Voice, it knows every Google Alert you've set up. It has your Google Calendar with all content going back as far as you've used it, including everything you've done every day since then. It knows your contact list with all the information you may have included about yourself and the people you know. It has your Picasa pictures, your news page configuration, indicating what topics you're most interested in. And so on."

The above was quoted from a recent article published by CNN.
This article described how powerful Google is; it knows everything about us.

It is a known fact that Facebook and Google knows much about us than our best friends. I know at this point of time you might be wondering why Google has to do this. Some people have raced their voice legally in several countries against this type of privacy issues lately. But I'm not pretty sure how far they have been succeeded.

Why are they tracking on our personal things. The answers have been fair enough from Google's point of view,but not fair enough for a normal user who values privacy.Google says it wants to give a better experience for every user by tracking on their personal interests.

Let me put it in this way.Suppose a person enters a search term "pink" and searches for it. Google knows whether you are referring to the colour pink or the singer Pink based on your behaviour on the internet.Every search term is personalized according to the user.The result I would get when I enter a search term will not likely be the same as when you enter the same term.It uses our information to target ads.It knows us. Yeah it sounds creepy, but that is the truth.

Google, as we all know is a tech giant who can spend millions or even billions to do something. They use powerful algorithms to compute these results which is very complex but at the same time quick enough too. Although they say that they won't be revealing our personal information to 3rd parties, can we trust them??? Or what if some hackers get access to all the contents on their databases? Should we still blame Google? I guess we should because people should be able to chose on what information Google has to store and what to not. Obviously people should have that right.But why haven't they implemented it then??

The response from Google was that "It is too difficult to have two different privacy policies in such a huge company". True.