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You should be worried for these reasons: 1) Google (and other SV giants) share data with the NSA. https://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/googles_secret_nsa_alliance
by mr_overalls 9y ago
You should be worried for these reasons:
1) Google (and other SV giants) share data with the NSA.
https://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/googles_secret_nsa_alliance_the_terrifying_deals_between_silicon_valley_and_the_security_state/ https://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/googles_secret_nsa_alliance...
2) The NSA in turn shares information with law-enforcement agencies. ICREACH contains information on the private communications millions of American citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-made-its-own-google-to-help-share-your-data-wit-1626652221 https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-made-its-own-google-to-help-shar...
3) The DEA (and possibly other agencies) uses this information to target Americans, and then lies about the origins of the information in a process called "parallel construction."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod/exclusive-u-s-directs-agents-to-cover-up-program-used-to-investigate-americans-idUSBRE97409R20130805 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod/exclusive-u-s-dir...
It's not difficult to see the potential for abuse in a shadowy process that surveils the private communications of Americans, applies unknown selectors and data mining algorithms, and then reports the results to law enforcement.
- mar77i 9y agoAnd then there's this... https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ Speaking of spooky stuff and google, this article still takes the cake. EDIT: for completeness sake, there has been a follow up: https://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Google-and-the-NSA-Who-s.html https://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Google-and-the-NSA-Who-s.html
- pdabbadabba 9y agoI just spent the last few minutes skimming through that article but, if there was a bombshell (or even 'spooky') allegation in there, I didn't find it. Maybe this is more a comment on the quality of the writing than the merits, but if anyone out there could explain what is actually being claimed here, that would be really helpful.
- mar77i 9y agoSpooky being google intertwining with the institutions that are supposed to defend your rights, and defend them from google, if necessary. But how is any govt able to do that if google is such a huge factor in making their interests heard.