|
|
Google Voice - Nearer To Total Control Or Useful Product, Benefits And Drawbacks
I personally am an Idealist so we will look at that factor foremost. Among the many technologies on offer are, voice mail transcription, one number, cheaper international calls, and sms to email. All these may be of tremendous benefit to subscribers. Likewise with the economic control and technical knowledge at Google the service is liable to be way superior than any opposition.
The one number feature is likely to be of great benefit to every person that needs to stay in constant contact. Likewise voice mail transcription would give you a permanently saved hard copy of all voice mail communications. Like millions I opened a Gmail service shortly after launch and can easily still find any email from then. I still have yet to make any significant difference in the massive storage allocated to my mailbox. In all probability your voice mails will likewise be there years into the future.
Finishing off the list of Google Voice pros, other useful service on offer are free sms to email and vice versa. You can evaluate Google/voice for more detailed features.
The draw backs of the new service.
This takes us to what I view as Google Voice cons. Do people really know what Google does with the massive amount of information it has on virtually any individual utilizing their products? From your searching history to all your emails, permanently stored and archived all over the planet. Now with the new voice service they will be able to add particulars on every telephone call you have ever had and dialed on that new Google number. One of the things Google is not lacking in beside cash and online impact is data storage capacity.
As far as I know Google has by no means done anything unethical with this data but the point is it is there. Government agencies all over the world would love to have accessibility to this information all using the guise of anti-terrorism measures. This might probably sound marginally alarmist but the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 bill tabled in the Us senate will give the president and his security agencies the ability to shut down the internet or police it if a vaguely written national cyber emergency was proclaimed.
And as we all know were America goes almost all of the Western world soon follows. In one possible future if an equivalent bill was soon tabled in the European Union and elsewhere. Would you be so keen to have all this information easily available to shady government agencies?
Many people could be under the illusion that they actually have control over their own personal accounts and be able to just erase any information that may compromise them. But anybody that understands the operation of computers would know that is not true. If for example some shady agency was watching your mailbox, recently deleted mails would be the the very first thing they would retrieve.
Google online Domination?
I don't imagine anyone can argue with the truth that Google Voice brings the organization nearer to complete and irreversible domination of the world wide web. Even so being an optimist and fascinated with new technologies I praise Google's new venture. And will likely be first in line if and when it is released worldwide. At the same time I will be alert to the fact that I will be noticeably adding to my electronic fingerprint.
|
More Articles
Blogroll
|
