Google Voice - Nearer To Complete Domination Or Valuable Solution, Advantages And Disadvantages

I normally am an optimist so we will consider that aspect foremost. Among the many features being offered are, voice mail transcription, one number, cheaper international calls, and sms to email. All these can become of enormous benefit to subscribers. Additionally with the commercial power and technical know how at Google the system is likely to be way more beneficial than any competitors.

The one number offer could be of enormous benefit to anyone that has to stay in constant contact. Just as voice mail transcription will give you a permanently saved hard copy of all voice mail communications. Like millions I opened up a Gmail account shortly after launch and can still obtain any email from then. I even now have yet to make any impression in the massive storage assigned to my mailbox. Presumably your voice mails will likewise be there years into the future.

Ending the list of Google Voice pros, other useful service being offered are free sms to email and vice versa. You can pay a visit to Google/voice for more detailed features.

The negative aspects of the new service.

This takes us to what I see as Google Voice cons. Do you really know what Google does with the massive amount of data it has on just about every individual utilizing their products? From your searching habits to all your emails, permanently recorded and backed up all over the globe. Now with their new voice service they can add information on every incoming call you have ever had and dialed on that new Google number. One thing Google is never short of apart from money and online clout is data storage space.

As far as I understand Google has by no means done anything unethical with this data even so the point is it is there. Governments worldwide would love to have access to this information all under the guise of anti-terrorism measures. This might sound marginally alarmist but the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 act tabled to the American Senate gives the president and his security agencies the power to shut down the internet or police it if a vaguely written national cyber emergency was announced.

And as everyone knows were America goes most of the Western world sooner or later follows. In one possible future if an equivalent bill was soon tabled in the European Union and elsewhere. Would you be so keen to have all this information freely accessible to shady government agencies?

Many people could be under the illusion that they have control over their own personal accounts and could just erase any information that might compromise them. But anyone that knows the operation of computer systems would know this really is not true. If for example some shady agency was watching your mailbox, recently deleted mails would be the the very first thing they would recover.

Google cyberspace Domination?

I don't think anyone can argue with the truth that Google Voice delivers the enterprise closer to comprehensive and irreversible control of the online world. However being an optimist and interested in new technologies I praise Google's new project. And will likely be first in line if and when it is introduced worldwide. At the same time I will be very aware that I will be substantially adding to my electronic fingerprint.

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