There, before a room full of journalists and politicians, Dr. Robert Epstein presented his jarring research on the brave new world Google is creating. Epstein is the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and currently a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology.
Theyre collecting information about you not just on Chrome, YouTube, Gmail, and Google.com, but also in many ways you cannot see for example, on millions of webpages that invisibly embed Google Analytics, or through the microphones Google secretly installed on home thermostats made by Nest, a company Google now owns.
Before you dismiss Epstein as a conservative crackpot conspiracy theorist, consider the fact that he is a well-respected academic with a Harvard Ph.D., that his endorsements come from the likes of B. Furthermore, as the Wall Street Journal recently reported, Google is moving into banking, giving them access to your financial information, and Project Nightingale, which, in addition to the newly acquired Fitbit, gives Google access to the personal health data of millions of Americans without them knowing it.
With Google controlling 90 percent of the worlds online searches, the left-wing company is using that power to seriously influence search results on topics ranging from the environment to state and federal elections.
If they dont want kids to know Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, they will suppress that search result or change the answers.
Larry Alex Taunton is the executive director of the FixedPoint Foundation and freelance columnist contributingtoUSA Today,FirstThings,the Atlantic,CNN,andThe American Spectator.
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