The Google

Google is finding more and more ways to integrate itself into nearly every aspect of our lives.

Google has the largest search engine in the world, biggest video platform (YouTube), biggest web browser (Chrome), most-used email service (Gmail,) and the largest mobile operating system (Android).

What that all means is that Google essentially knows everything about us - be that what we search for, what ads we click on, what we write about, what we watch, and what apps we like.

Google's moonshot projects - like Google Glass and driverless cars - are merely the next steps in Google's quest to become a total knowledge company. Google's driverless cars mean the company will know your driving habits and where you like to go. With Glass, people can access information in real-time without having to check a phone.

Google's recent acquisitions hint that it's about to go even further. It's moving toward knowing everything about us - not just in the online world, but also in the offline world.

Google's motto has long been "Don't be evil." By and large, it has kept its word.

But with the number of resources and data it has, envisioning what Google could do with of its army of robots, drones, and satellites can be somewhat terrifying.

Meanwhile, the National Security Association has access to all of the information we freely give Google, albeit not with Google's permission. In order to make government spying more difficult,Google has since announced that it plans to encrypt all Gmail messages while they're in transit.

Google is doing its best to assure people that their data is secure, but in reality, the U.S. government still has access to your communications on Google's servers.

"The email provider can still see the message," Seth Schoen, a senior technologist with privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Investor's Business Daily. "They're just encrypting it when it's going over the Internet, not when the message is in their own system."

The only way to achieve true security would be for Google to encrypt your email to the extent that only you could decrypt and read it. But because Google needs to see what we're talking about in order to serve up ads, it seems unlikely that Google would offer full encryption. The scary part is that there's only so much Google can do to prevent the government from requesting and accessing its data.