“Big Brother is watching you”

Google’s primordial misson is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” However, the company has been criticized by infringment in privacy, intellectual property and censorship.

Google was ranked as Hostile to Privacy by an entity called Privacy International in its report in 2007. The entity affirms that “a centrally-located, widely popular data warehouse of millions of Internet users' searches, and how under controversial existing U.S. law, Google can be forced to hand over all such information to the US government. So it analogously to medical and legal practioners who may be obliged to disclose intimate information to government, Google datacenters could be requested by government regulation to provide sensitive information about its users. The site Google Watch (www.google-watch.org) raised several questions about privacy issues regarding the storage of cookies cross referred with ID, so that Google can creat a user data log. Additionally, Google Watch has also criticized Google's page rank algorithms, saying that they discriminate against new websites and favor established sites. This web site nominated Google for the Big Brother Award.It is reasonable to say that George Orwell was unaware that the technology would allow the implementation of some parts of the concept. Due to the avalanche of criticism of breach of privacy policy, Google provisionally decided to postpone the launch of a new technology of facial recognition.

Google is also criticized by violation of copyrights. The New York Time has complained that the search tool provided grants users access to information that readers must subscribe and pay to access. On September 20, 2005, the Authors Guild, a group that represents 8,000 U.S. authors, filed a class action suit in federal court in Manhattan against Google over its unauthorized scanning and copying of books through its Google Library program. Google states that it is in compliance with all existing and historical applications of copyright laws regarding books. Finally, Google has been criticized of censoring its search results, most notably in cooperation with the government of places such as China.