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> I can see CIA looking at how their propaganda are affecting foreign nations by seeing who reads it from where Interestingly, this is the second Google projec
by znowi 13y ago
> I can see CIA looking at how their propaganda are affecting foreign nations by seeing who reads it from where
Interestingly, this is the second Google project on HN today that caters to people in oppressive countries. uProxy and recently announced Project Shield [1]. The major targets are Syria and Iran. Incidentally, they're also targets for the US military :) Intel from the enemy territory will certainly be of interest.
Good PR that Google is getting from it is in no way helping with mass surveillance at home, which they're themselves a big part of.
[1] http://projectshield.withgoogle.com/ http://projectshield.withgoogle.com/
- simias 13y agoIf it's PR that actually helps build viable tools used to circumvent censorship and improve privacy on the web in general then I'm all for it. Rather that than some silly TV ad campaign, don't you think?
- chaz 13y agoThere's a third project, the Digital Attack Map. All three were announced together yesterday: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-free-expression-tools-from-google.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-free-expression-t...
- lallysingh 13y agoThe launches are coming from the Google Ideas summit, linked in the article.