Official Google Voice App Approved by Apple

[jp102235]

Um... you understand that your day-to-day browsing activity can be monitored by your ISP, right?

You can set up your own LAN or WAN and post guards every 10 feet along every cable run to ensure thre are no hard taps. Then set up your own Asterisk server and use VOIP phones. Forget about wireless anything- not secure. This solution is decidedly not free and will be the best way to prevent snooping.

True,
I just _hate_ it when people say stuff is "free": a sms message on an unlimited texting plan is not "free", nor is an a gv originated phone call (except the google talk one) "free" - its using minutes you paid for on your provider (or your employer paid for - still not free).

Yea, its semantics, but its my own little crusade against the ad-machines who entice us with the word 'free' way too often.

as far as privacy: yea, you are spot on, - unless encryption is employed - I fatalistically believe all of our information is already out there. But, I still don't view google's services as 'free'.

jp

 

[jp102235]

First, since you are asking, I'd suggest that being aware is your first defense.

Don't use Google Voice if you don't want all that information harvested (I've had Google Voice for almost a year and am amazed at the amount of data that gets transcribed and collected. I am also curious whether GV intercepts or has the ability to intercept VOIP calls) If you are writing a sensitive document you should not use Google Docs and perhaps write it using Word and place the document on your own, more secure cloud service.

I soooo agree with you,
but this is why I am fatalistic:
we carry around neat little computers (smartphones) that 1) very few employ encryption 2) text messages have varying degrees of protection, and the biggy: 3) track our every move.

if you watch the news very closely, police have been able to nab the bad guys a lot easier these days because of the mandatory gps in the phones - placing people at the scene of the crime, then data mining their associates and just waiting for them to show up. great for crime prevention, but wow, slightly scary for privacy.

I just view my life as an 'open book' now, but if I can help it, I try not to give away my personal data to an ad agency (google,etc.) without searching for a pay-for-service alternative first.
j

 

[nutmac]

So anybody know whether this app is still on track for the App Store? Or has Google given up?

 

[Dbrown]

What about last year or next year or five years from now? Do you trust them knowing more about you than your mother does?

and what exactly do you think they're going to do with that information? Have black helicopters flying over your house? Send men in black to follow you around?

cmon get real. there isnt even a real person reading your email. it's just a computer algorithm scanning for certain patterns to generate a targeted ad. I'd much rather have google doing that than my mom reading my email.

 

[pika2000]

So anybody know whether this app is still on track for the App Store? Or has Google given up?

I know. The excitement has died down to the point that nobody has any updates whether we are actually going to see the app or not?

 

[therocket]

so, is there a date for when this will be actually launched in the app store? I am hoping the latest date is when iOS 4 comes to the ipad...

 

[twoodcc]

if only i could get a google voice account

 

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