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Google Friends Connect – give me your soul

So Google launches Google Friends Connect and the world gets even more scary.

Now you can add a bit of google code to your site and create a social network type function on your own site. Some snippets from their press release:

Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more.

My concern with this stuff is the more and more it happens, and it will because as a human race we can’t stop it, then the more personal data becomes available to large companies. This data can be data mined in so many ways, so as to allow companies to control the masses. If I have your browsing patterns I can take your mind anywhere I want it to go.

Doug concerned

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Google written by Doug Scott