Fed up with their inability to know literally every detail of every person’s lives, Google has created a new email spy tool that users can opt-in to (for once). Presented under the guise of allowing users to know details about their emailing habits, this so called “Google Meter” will really just store the information of all users in a database, which will be used to monitor the overall habits of Gmail users. This will of course allow Google to write better algorithms for tailoring ads to specific people without their knowledge. Coupled with the fact that Google already scans every email received by Gmail users for keywords and displays “appropriate” ads based on those keywords, you now have a system where in Google might as well just be pointing a camera over every user’s shoulder and looking at their screen as they go about their daily lives. This moment of paranoia brought to you by the 1997 Mel Gibson/Julia Roberts film Conspiracy Theory (this sentence brought to you by keyword analysis of this content by Google).