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Once again, media mogul Rupert Murdoch is bucking the system. Sky News reports that he may be taking all paid content from his papers off of Google.

News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has suggested the company’s online newspaper pages will be invisible to Google users when it launches its new paid content strategy.

He claimed that readers who randomly reach a page via an internet search hold little value to advertisers.

This defies all conventional wisdom about the future of news and journalism. Information wants to be free, and Murdoch is about the only guy in town holding strong, and threatening to go even further. More on this from Vanity Fair’s Michael Wolf.

This article by the New York Times talks about how technology could be used track Flu movements, market down-turns and potentially deny insurance coverage.  I’m about the biggest fan of Google out of everyone I’ve ever met, but Google’s success at

collective intelligence tools could create an Orwellian future on a level Big Brother could only dream of.

 

I’m not saying Google itself doesn’t treat it’s users privacy responsibly, but certainly some have viewed it as a case study which

has touched off a race to cash in on collective intelligence technologies.