Google Voice - Nearer To Total Control Or Beneficial Service, Pros And Cons
I normally am an Idealist so we will consider that factor to begin with. A few of the many features being offered are, voice mail transcription, one number, cheaper international calls, and sms to email. All these may be of great benefit to customers. Additionally with the economic potential and specialized know how at Google the system is liable to be way better than any rivals.
The one number feature is likely to be of great benefit to anyone that needs to stay in constant contact. Additionally voice mail transcription gives you a permanently stored copy of all voice mail messages. Like millions I opened a Gmail service shortly after launch and can certainly still obtain any email from then. I up till now have yet to make any significant difference in the massive storage allocated to my mailbox. In all probability your voice mails will in addition be there years into the future.
Finishing off the list of Google Voice pros, other useful service available are free sms to email and vice versa. You can evaluate Google/voice for more detailed features.
The negative aspects of the recent service.
This brings us to what I look at as Google Voice cons. Do you really know what Google really does with the large amount of of information it has on just about every individual making use of their products and services? From your searching habits to all your emails, permanently recorded and backed up all over the planet. Now with their innovative voice service they will be able to add details on every incoming call you have ever had and dialed on your new Google number. One of the things Google is never short of apart from capital and online influence is data storage capacity.
As far as I am aware Google has by no means done anything untoward using this data however the point is it is there. Authorities around the world would love to have accessibility to this information all under the guise of anti-terrorism measures. This might sound a bit alarmist but the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 act put forward in the Us senate would give the president and his security agents the power to shut down the internet or police it if a vaguely worded national cyber emergency was proclaimed.
And as everyone knows were America goes the majority of the Western world soon follows. In one potential future if an equivalent bill was soon tabled in the European Union and elsewhere. Will you be so willing to have all this information freely accessible to shady government agencies?
Many people could be under the illusion that they actually have control over their own personal accounts and could just erase any information which could compromise them. But anyone that knows the workings of computer systems would know this really is not true. If for example some shady agency was watching your mailbox, freshly deleted mails would be the first thing they will recover.
Google web Domination?
I don't believe anyone can debate with the truth that Google Voice delivers the organization closer to total and irreversible domination of the internet. Even so being an optimist and interested in fresh technology I praise Google's new venture. And will likely be first in line if and when it is launched worldwide. On the other hand I will be keenly aware that I will be noticeably adding to my electronic fingerprint.