I want to believe that as Google expands to a size befitting its collective genius, that it will fill this extra mass with more of the brilliant and profoundly helpful technology that paved its ascent. I’m trusting that it won’t fill that space with bureaucracy and fall into a defensive crouch like a weary old man protecting the stash won back when there was nothing to lose. But even more, I’m trusting that Google won’t grow reckless.

In the long term, the only thing acting in favour of keeping our private information private is Google’s business model, which relies on user confi dence that their lives are not being tracked by a Big Brother-type entity (especially with links to government) – not the good will of Larry, Sergey, Eric and their successors.

As a wise man once said, “The road to hell is paved with good intensions.”

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Paul Ryan is an editor and senior writer at Australian Anthill.

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