Outspoken cybersecurity entrepreneur John McAfee, the founder of the anti-virus software that still bears his surname, believes that multinational technology giant Google has become “so large and so powerful” that its alleged greed now “threatens to destroy us all”.

On 14 July, in a tough-talking interview with Russia’s primary state media outlet RT, McAfee took the search engine goliath to task, saying: “If you believe that Google is not harmful then you must believe that the total loss of our privacy and human dignity is not harmful.”

McAfee, who now heads up a cybersecurity and cryptocurrency venture called MGT Capital Investments, slammed Google’s data collection and web-crawling capabilities, claiming it reduces individuals to statistics without considering their human emotions.

“I love Google from one standpoint,” he said. “It has opened up the world to information beyond comprehension and has enriched our lives – but Google has taken the mantle of corporate conscience and sacrificed it on the altar of Mammon for money.

“We are not numbers, I am not a statistic, I am not a collection of attitudes and desires. I am a human being with my own dreams and hopes and problems. By making me a number you have removed my human dignity. You need to stop doing that.”

A Google spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In past years, Google has been criticised for scanning the personal emails of Gmail users, an allegedly close relationship with the US government and numerous complaints of suspected data collection overreach. Yet it remains one of the biggest technology firms in the world.

“I am seriously ticked off about Google’s lack of conscience,” McAfee continued.

“I may be an old man and you may think that I have lost my energy and my strength and my teeth but I promise you, if things don’t change I will do everything within my power to make sure that the objections of the world are laid squarely on the doorsteps of Google.”

It appears McAfee was determined to start a war-of-words. In a YouTube description of his RT interview, he wrote: “When success gives way to pure, venal greed we all suffer. Google has become so large, and so powerful, that their greed now threatens to destroy us all.”

On Twitter, where the web pioneer boasts a following of more than 63,000 people, he later claimed his “Google challenge” was mysteriously deleted from his social media profiles. The same day, alongside a selfie of him wearing a skull mask, he added: “I’m ready. Are you Google?”

MGT Capital Investments is currently bulking up its bitcoin mining capabilities, alongside a product dubbed “Sentinel” which aims to protect businesses from criminal hackers. Most recently, a court ruled that McAfee settled a legal dispute with tech firm Intel over use of his name.

SOURCE http://www.clegist.com/google-wants-destroy-us-john-mcafee/

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Mcafee himself is dodgy, he built an anti virus on one hand then build the viruses and spread it on the other hand. No one need an antivirus without the viruses everywhere. As for Google closeness i think yes they were close during Obama administration but had disagreement when the government ask for gmail contents stored overseas. And be reminded the government always lost in their quest. The government lost against Microsoft in 2016 when they want contents of data stored overseas, they lost yet against Apple when they want Apple to open arrested terrorist Iphone which apple refused, the gist goes the US government paid some IT geek 1 million dollars to open the Iphone.

your google campaign was deleted from your social media accounts, and you want to provide cyber protection for us.

sunnysunny69:
Mcafee himself is dodgy, he built an anti virus on one hand then build the viruses and spread it on the other hand. No one need an antivirus without the viruses everywhere. As for Google closeness i think yes they were close during Obama administration but had disagreement when the government ask for gmail contents stored overseas. And be reminded the government always lost in their quest. The government lost against Microsoft in 2016 when they want contents of data stored overseas, they lost yet against Apple when they want Apple to open arrested terrorist Iphone which apple refused, the gist goes the US government paid some IT geek 1 million dollars to open the Iphone.

That's true. Many of this Antivirus companies built their businesses on such knavish, evasively tricky antics. Kaspersky is one that's constantly been accused of such as well.

If McAfee were to develop a mobile OS, it would have been sold for premium price

Google has given free products and services to everyone, in exchange for access to their secrets.

Sounds fair to me. People who can afford paid services can keep their privacy

MrDude:


That's true. Many of this Antivirus companies built their businesses on such knavish, evasively tricky antics. Kaspersky is one that's constantly been accused of such as well.

His antivirus is great but always in the news as spreading on the other hand too. The gist goes some of his staff are reformed or retired hackers.

This man's claims are 100% true and only a real genuis would have noticed...google now collect information at free will now they care no more about their customers privacy. Same thing facebook is about doing with their messager number and text inclusion in one place.

Fyi with your mobile number alone someome can track your location