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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 19 Apr 2014

    “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.” —Eric Schmidt, Google. In 2010.

    4:43 AM - 19 Apr 2014
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      2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 19 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        …Source: the excellent article by Mathias Döpfner (PS. If any of you know him, I’d appreciate an introduction.) http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/18/google-alarming-no-conspiracy-theorist …

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      3. to‏ @toobdesign 19 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Be careful - Döpfner proofed to be very clueless in the past. I only have german sources…

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      4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 19 Apr 2014
        Replying to @toobdesign

        @toobdesign I don’t know his past but his article on Google is spot on.

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      5. to‏ @toobdesign 19 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Yes thats true… but coming from someone like Döpfner… but then again its one of the big publishing houses saying that…

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      6. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 19 Apr 2014
        Replying to @toobdesign

        @toobdesign Right, and remember that they are exposing the business model, not just the company. That is good :)

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      7. to‏ @toobdesign 19 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I don’t agree with most of this article - but this is typical german reaction to Döpfners letter: http://www.indiskretionehrensache.de/2014/04/mathias-doepfner-google/ … Scroll down!

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      1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 19 Apr 2014
        Replying to @its_F_aye_Z

        @fayeznoor @meetZaki Amazing, why didn’t I think of that? Thank you! #lifechangingmoment

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      2. Katy Dramé‏ @misskapricorn 19 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral what is an indi phone¿

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 19 Apr 2014
        Replying to @misskapricorn

        @misskapricorn Hey Katy, you can find out more about it at http://indiephone.eu  :)

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      4. Katy Dramé‏ @misskapricorn 19 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Balkan wants Indie Phone to compete head-on with Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Nexus. It's ambitious.

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      1. robert abrams‏ @fbrtw 19 Apr 2014
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        @aral @SocialityMedia Hmmm, Google sounds like they work for the NSA!

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      1. Daniel Hall‏ @_danielhall 19 Apr 2014
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        @aral @om That sounds mostly like @ericschmidt overselling Google as usual. They know our location, but what we're thinking? Please.

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      1. Kate Hodsdon‏ @KateHodsdon 19 Apr 2014
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        @aral I still find that quote disturbing (esp. as I'm getting Women seeking Women ads trail me - not sure where Eric's got that one from ;-)

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      1. Chris Carey‏ @MusicEcon101 19 Apr 2014
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        @aral I could have done with them working out I wasn't in the US before I put everything in to my calendar!

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      1. Evan Kirstel‏ @evankirstel 19 Apr 2014
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        @aral What an incredible hypocrite as well ... When bloggers started speaking to into his personal life (online)

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      1. Sociality Media‏ @SocialityMedia 19 Apr 2014
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        @aral .... and that is SCARY! Big Brother comes to mind! ThatsGoingBeyongMarketingForMe!

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      1. Nilanjan Chaudhuri‏ @nilsmind 19 Apr 2014
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        “@aral: “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We more or less know what you’re thinking about.”—Eric Schmidt, Google. In 2010.”

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      1. Tarry Singh‏ @tarrysingh 19 Apr 2014
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        @aral @om google should be very proud of its achievements :-)

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      1. Massimo Bolzoni‏ @massimobolzoni 19 Apr 2014
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        @aral @evankirstel now also FB and Twitter can say something similar unluckilly for all of us...

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