Leave No Data Unslurped: A New Google T Shirt Slogan?
August 25, 2025
No AI. Just a dinobaby working the old-fashioned way.
That mobile phone is the A Number One surveillance device ever developed. Not surprisingly, companies have figured out how to monetize the data flowing through the device. Try explaining the machinations of those “Accept Defaults” to a clutch of 70-something bridge players. Then try explaining the same thing to the GenAI type of humanoid. One group looks at you with a baffled work on their faces. The other group stares into the distance and says, “Whatever.”
Now the Google wants more data, fresh information, easily updated. Because why not? “Google Expands AI-Based Age Verification System for Search Platform.” The write up says:
Google has begun implementing an artificial intelligence-based age verification system not only on YouTube but also on Google Search … Users in the US are reporting pop-ups on Google Search saying, “We’ve changed some of your settings because we couldn’t verify that you’re of legal age.” This is a sign of new rules in Google’s Terms of Service.
Why the scope creep from YouTube to “search” with its AI wonderfulness? The write up says:
The new restrictions could be another step in re-examining the balance between usability and privacy.
Wrong. The need for more data to stuff into the assorted AI “learning” services provide a reasonable rationale. Tossing in the “prevent harm” angle is just cover.
My view of the matter is:
- Mobile is a real time service. Capturing more information of a highly-specific nature is something that is an obvious benefit to the Google.
- Users have zero awareness of how the data interactions work and most don’t want to know to try to understand cross correlation.
- Google’s goals are not particularized. This type of “fingerprint” just makes sense.
The motto could be “Leave no data unslurped.” What’s this mean? Every Google service will require verification. The more one verifies, the fresher the identify information and the items that tag along and can be extracted. I think of this as similar to the process of rendering slaughtered livestock. The animal is dead, so what’s the harm.
None, of course. Google is busy explaining how little its data centers use to provide those helpful AI overview things.
Stephen E Arnold, August x, 2025
Stephen E Arnold, August 25, 2025
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