Google to aid in Flu Searches

DRUDGE is reporting that Google "will launch a new tool that will help federal officials "track sickness." Isn't technology grand?

Well, maybe not. The current situation in which we find ourselves wherein Big Govt controls nearly everything and will continue to control EVEN MORE aspects of our life, this may not be such a great idea. But then, how do you stop technology, especially when it aids Big Govt to "help" us even more?

GOOGLE, continuing to work closely with government, claims it would keep individual user data confidential: "GOOGLE FLU TRENDS can never be used to identify individual users because we rely on anonymized, aggregated counts of how often certain search queries occur each week."

Is that as comforting to you as it is to me?

At the risk of sounding paranoid, it's not all that difficult to imagine Google (or any other search engine) tracking Home Schoolers, gun owners, pro-life Christians, or heaven forbid, those who may not approve of same sex marriages, those who may refuse Govt mandated inoculations, etc, etc, ad infinitum . I'm just sayin'.

That may sound paranoiac, but just because you're paranoid doesn't mean someone's not out to "git you."

While we're talking about paranoia, here's a timely piece: Paranoia on the rise, experts say. Hmmm, I wonder why.