Libertarians are worried that a new service launched by Google to monitor social trends poses a threat to personal liberty. As a launch pad for its service Google has provided 'Flu Trends, an application which will map the progress of 'flu epidemics by gathering data on searches featuring the word 'flu.
Google sceptics think the search engine giant is advertising its usefulness to governments with an interest in mass surveillance and social engineeering.
Boggart Blog says DON'T PANIC ! ! !
Our own search database shows that generation webhead types using the search term flu in the past few days are wooried about their friends who "flu 2 Tyland & hav probs gettn bk."
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