All your info are belong to us

Google Health has opened its door today, and the ramifications are quite frankly worrying. Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of Gmail and the Google Search Engine (best Hacking tool on the planet), but this is a worrying development. Google Health aims to be a portal to organise and maintain all of your health records...lets think about this all for a second.

On the face of things Google is a company that aims to be number one in the field of Online Advertising, and they clearly are, through the use of highly targetted adverts. What they are really all about is Data Aggregation. To quote Sir Francis Bacon - "Knowledge is Power", and that is what Google are all about - sorting and categorising every single piece of information about every person on the planet.
Now thats not necessarily a bad thing. Just because they have access to all of that information does not necessarily mean they will abuse it - but the fact remains that they can, or indeed they can be forced by another group (i.e. a government) to hand over certain information. Having all of your information in one place like that is just asking for trouble.

Do I sound overly paranoid (my tinfoil hat is the height of fashion)? Well let me ask you this question. I have a mate called Dave (Dave may or may not be hypotethical). Dave runs a small data storage company and for a low low price (free), has kindly offered to store every email you recieve; catalog every site you visit (yes even the dodgy ones you swear you never go to); store all of your personal documents (both the ones on the web, and those on your pc); keep your personal calendar for you (not that you care that he knows where you will be every minute of the day); mind all of your private photos (which you have kindly cateogorised and labelled for him); and of course keep track off everybody you are acquainted with.

But wait - theres more! He will now keep all of your medical history safe for you as well! Remember that nasty rash "down there"; or the incident with the gerbil, the bungee rope and the rocket launcher - all neatly documented in case you ever need to access it.

But there is no need to be paranoid, because Dave would never do anything dodgy with your information. Afterall his Companies motto is "Don't be Evil"...