{"id":104997,"date":"2018-05-22T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=104997"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:28:35","slug":"is-this-googles-scary-endgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/is-this-googles-scary-endgame\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this Google\u2019s scary endgame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We know that Silicon Valley big tech companies are spying on us<\/strong>. Data is the new oil as they say. Do we care though? Probably not, but <strong>a leaked video from Google could set your alarm bells ringing<\/strong> or at least have the hairs on the back of your neck standing on end.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_151018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151018\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-151018 size-full\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/5\/17\/17344250\/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy\">The Verge<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Selfish Ledger asks whether data is like the DNA of our behavior<\/strong>. Does the data determine our behavior? It posits the question whether our data belongs to us. <strong>If our data was available to future generations, think of the good it can do.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The problem with hypotheses like this one is they inevitably end up attacking free will. <\/strong>The algorithms that use our data begin making decisions for us rather than just advising us on the best course of action; they become sovereign.<\/p>\n<p>The Selfish Ledger points all of this out in a startlingly blunt fashion. <strong>The app at the heart of your existence, known as your ledger, influences your behavior<\/strong> so that it can collect the data it needs to make better decisions. <strong>It can even create new products<\/strong> to help it do so <strong>and then purchase them on your behalf.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google says that the Selfish Ledger is no more than an old design concept that is supposed to be disturbing. It claims that it <strong>isn\u2019t related to any current or future Google products<\/strong>. Google\u2019s very lifeblood, however, is our data and <strong>with being evil now on the table at Google HQ who is to say that Google isn\u2019t lying to us<\/strong>? Check out the video and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that Silicon Valley big tech companies are spying on us. Data is the new oil as they say. Do we care though? Probably not, but a leaked video from Google could set your alarm bells ringing or at least have the hairs on the back of your neck standing on end. The Selfish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/is-this-googles-scary-endgame\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is this Google\u2019s scary endgame?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":105224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1068],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-104997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-google"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327964,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104997\/revisions\/327964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104997"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=104997"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=104997"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=104997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}