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Google is not what it seems
- bilazip 12y agoAlmost all of the Internet players that provide "free" storage and/or email/photo services are actually performing information gathering for the state. To use any of these services, you have to provide personal information. So the public is providing two sets of information. One set identifies the user and the other set contains their day to day activities. It's actually quite creepy the way some of these players crosslink their services and share login credentials. I have this strong mental image of "analysts" combing through this information looking for "interesting" patterns. To say the public is woefully uninformed about the real purpose of this information storage/gathering is breathtaking.
- rukshn 12y agowhat option people have? wherever they host their content it will be accessed by the government
- scottlocklin 12y agoI hate commenting on political posts, but 1000 times this. The US military industrial intelligence complex has always been deeply embedded in the telecom and tech industry. Just because you have cool goth chicks on rollerskates and nerds in silver pants at Google doesn't mean they are any different. Hell, I vaguely know a cool goth chick who works in Ft. Meade. And now that Google is a company about the same size as Exxon, of course they have their shadowy fixers and Pinkertons. Facebook is the same. For all the noise made about how wealthy Russian oligarchs need FSB connections to succeed; it is the same thing here.
- dang 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8500970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8500970