Years ago Google was the maverick, the little search engine that could, that morphed into a Colossus search tool. My home page in the early days of the Internet was Yahoo, but as soon as I discovered Google, I loved it's simplicity and effectiveness, home has been Google ever since. Further when Google's founder and CEO Eric Schmidt announced they would not be cooperating with Bush's new Homeland security by turning over access to archieved searchs and ip's accessing email gmail accounts or any other private user data, I was encouraged, that Google was helping protect one of the last bastions of freedom the internet.
Things have changed, the White House is now led by Progressive So******t, and Eric Schmidt seems to find working with the Government now a safer proposition. The fact is Eric Schmidt and many Google executives are also politically progressive, (no surprise there is a never ending line of smart people who think they should run our lives because they know what is best, many find a home with progressives). Apparently there is a progressive love affair between Obama and Eric Schmidt, who enjoys White House access, and has been offered the lofty title of "Technology Czar", which Schmidt politely refused.
I am now changing my home page, and going to find a new search engine, plus close the 4 gmail email accounts that I have. The enemy is government intrusion into the private lives of its citizens, What Google wouldn't do for America's national security is now willing to sell it's soul to prevent China from pilfering Google's own technology and data. I'm not a criminal or spend my time browsing stuff I shouldn't be, nor a hacker or any kind of internet activity that would be considered illegal. I am serious about not wanting an abusive government looking over my shoulder, or has the potential to eventually access that kind of power. "See bottom excerpt on Google's control over your internet life".
Big Brother either want's control or will take over, the reigns of society both economically and socially. Control... It is my belief that our personal freedom is in jeopardy, not today, not tomorrow, but eventually. Who would have ever believed that our Government would be telling private companies how much they can pay their employees or how big a bonus they get, or would be half owner of Chrysler and GM (the stock holders never even got to vote on Gov. ownership).. The internet is in their sights, as well as talk radio, all forms of communication media. Control...
Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks (BS! Google records, pass to NSA)
Washington (com)Post ^ | Feb 4, 2010 | Ellen Nakashima
Posted on Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:16:44 AM by max americana
The world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
Under an agreement that is being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google -- and its users -- from future attack.
Google and the NSA declined to comment on the partnership. But sources with knowledge of the arrangement, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the alliance is being designed to allow the two organizations to share critical information without violating Google's policies or laws that protect the privacy of Americans' online communications. The sources said the deal does not mean the NSA will be viewing users' searches or e-mail accounts or that Google will be sharing proprietary data.
The partnership strikes at the core of one of the most sensitive issues for the government and private industry in the evolving world of cybersecurity: how to balance privacy and national security interests. On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair called the Google attacks, which the company acknowledged in January, a "wake-up call." Cyberspace cannot be protected, he said, without a "collaborative effort that incorporates both the U.S. private sector and our international partners."
But achieving collaboration is not easy, in part because private companies do not trust the government to keep their secrets and in part because of concerns that collaboration can lead to continuous government monitoring of private communications. Privacy advocates, concerned about a repeat of the NSA's warrantless interception of Americans' phone calls and e-mails after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, say information-sharing must be limited and closely overseen. (excerpt)
Google's control over your internet life... (excerpt)
Google's ambitions seem to know no bounds. The number of products and services the company has launched just since in the last half of this decade (which began in 2001 and will end with the arrival of 2011) is staggering.
Google's products have been explicitly designed to provide a bigger and more dangerous window into the lives of users. Through its search engine it can log queries. Through Google Analytics, AdSense, and widgets embedded on countless websites, it can quietly track surfing behavior.
Through Google Checkout it can obtain and store credit card numbers. Through Google Talk, Google Voice, and Gmail, it can monitor personal communication. Through Android and the Nexus One, it can capture mobile phone numbers. Through applications like Latitude and turn-by-turn maps, it can discern a user's location. Through YouTube it knows what people are watching and what they like to watch. The forthcoming Chrome OS will automatically upload copies of anything on a drive that's plugged in to Google's datacenters.
Then there's Google's plot to get its hands on millions of orphaned books.
I could go on. And on. Google's endgame seems to be a world in which we connect to it to do everything... a world without user privacy and a world in which there is no competition. Forget choice in the marketplace. How about no marketplace at all?
Article:
NSA Spying
The U.S. government, with assistance from major telecommunications carriers including AT&T, has engaged in a massive program of illegal dragnet surveillance of domestic communications and communications records of millions of ordinary Americans since at least 2001.
News reports in December 2005 first revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been intercepting Americans’ phone calls and Internet communications. Those news reports, plus a USA Today story in May 2006 and the statements of several members of Congress, revealed that the NSA is also receiving wholesale copies of their telephone and other communications records. All of these surveillance activities are in violation of the privacy safeguards established by Congress and the U.S. Constitution.
The evidence also shows that the government did not act alone. EFF has obtained whistleblower evidence [PDF] from former AT&T technician Mark Klein showing that AT&T is cooperating with the illegal surveillance. The undisputed documents show that AT&T installed a fiberoptic splitter at its facility at 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco that makes copies of all emails, web browsing, and other Internet traffic to and from AT&T customers, and provides those copies to the NSA. This copying includes both domestic and international Internet activities of AT&T customers. As one expert observed, “this isn’t a wiretap, it’s a country-tap.”
EFF is fighting these illegal activities on multiple fronts. In Hepting v. AT&T, EFF filed the first case against a telecom for violating its customers' privacy. In addition, EFF is representing victims of the illegal surveillance program in Jewel v. NSA, a lawsuit filed in September 2008 against the government seeking to stop the warrantless wiretapping and hold the government officials behind the program accountable.
EFF is not alone in this fight. There are multiple cases challenging various parts of the illegal surveillance against both the telecoms and the government. This page collects information on EFF's cases as well as cases brought by individuals, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and of Illinois, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and others.
Things have changed, the White House is now led by Progressive So******t, and Eric Schmidt seems to find working with the Government now a safer proposition. The fact is Eric Schmidt and many Google executives are also politically progressive, (no surprise there is a never ending line of smart people who think they should run our lives because they know what is best, many find a home with progressives). Apparently there is a progressive love affair between Obama and Eric Schmidt, who enjoys White House access, and has been offered the lofty title of "Technology Czar", which Schmidt politely refused.
I am now changing my home page, and going to find a new search engine, plus close the 4 gmail email accounts that I have. The enemy is government intrusion into the private lives of its citizens, What Google wouldn't do for America's national security is now willing to sell it's soul to prevent China from pilfering Google's own technology and data. I'm not a criminal or spend my time browsing stuff I shouldn't be, nor a hacker or any kind of internet activity that would be considered illegal. I am serious about not wanting an abusive government looking over my shoulder, or has the potential to eventually access that kind of power. "See bottom excerpt on Google's control over your internet life".
Big Brother either want's control or will take over, the reigns of society both economically and socially. Control... It is my belief that our personal freedom is in jeopardy, not today, not tomorrow, but eventually. Who would have ever believed that our Government would be telling private companies how much they can pay their employees or how big a bonus they get, or would be half owner of Chrysler and GM (the stock holders never even got to vote on Gov. ownership).. The internet is in their sights, as well as talk radio, all forms of communication media. Control...
Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks (BS! Google records, pass to NSA)
Washington (com)Post ^ | Feb 4, 2010 | Ellen Nakashima
Posted on Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:16:44 AM by max americana
The world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
Under an agreement that is being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google -- and its users -- from future attack.
Google and the NSA declined to comment on the partnership. But sources with knowledge of the arrangement, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the alliance is being designed to allow the two organizations to share critical information without violating Google's policies or laws that protect the privacy of Americans' online communications. The sources said the deal does not mean the NSA will be viewing users' searches or e-mail accounts or that Google will be sharing proprietary data.
The partnership strikes at the core of one of the most sensitive issues for the government and private industry in the evolving world of cybersecurity: how to balance privacy and national security interests. On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair called the Google attacks, which the company acknowledged in January, a "wake-up call." Cyberspace cannot be protected, he said, without a "collaborative effort that incorporates both the U.S. private sector and our international partners."
But achieving collaboration is not easy, in part because private companies do not trust the government to keep their secrets and in part because of concerns that collaboration can lead to continuous government monitoring of private communications. Privacy advocates, concerned about a repeat of the NSA's warrantless interception of Americans' phone calls and e-mails after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, say information-sharing must be limited and closely overseen. (excerpt)
Google's control over your internet life... (excerpt)
Google's ambitions seem to know no bounds. The number of products and services the company has launched just since in the last half of this decade (which began in 2001 and will end with the arrival of 2011) is staggering.
Google's products have been explicitly designed to provide a bigger and more dangerous window into the lives of users. Through its search engine it can log queries. Through Google Analytics, AdSense, and widgets embedded on countless websites, it can quietly track surfing behavior.
Through Google Checkout it can obtain and store credit card numbers. Through Google Talk, Google Voice, and Gmail, it can monitor personal communication. Through Android and the Nexus One, it can capture mobile phone numbers. Through applications like Latitude and turn-by-turn maps, it can discern a user's location. Through YouTube it knows what people are watching and what they like to watch. The forthcoming Chrome OS will automatically upload copies of anything on a drive that's plugged in to Google's datacenters.
Then there's Google's plot to get its hands on millions of orphaned books.
I could go on. And on. Google's endgame seems to be a world in which we connect to it to do everything... a world without user privacy and a world in which there is no competition. Forget choice in the marketplace. How about no marketplace at all?
Article:
NSA Spying
The U.S. government, with assistance from major telecommunications carriers including AT&T, has engaged in a massive program of illegal dragnet surveillance of domestic communications and communications records of millions of ordinary Americans since at least 2001.
News reports in December 2005 first revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been intercepting Americans’ phone calls and Internet communications. Those news reports, plus a USA Today story in May 2006 and the statements of several members of Congress, revealed that the NSA is also receiving wholesale copies of their telephone and other communications records. All of these surveillance activities are in violation of the privacy safeguards established by Congress and the U.S. Constitution.
The evidence also shows that the government did not act alone. EFF has obtained whistleblower evidence [PDF] from former AT&T technician Mark Klein showing that AT&T is cooperating with the illegal surveillance. The undisputed documents show that AT&T installed a fiberoptic splitter at its facility at 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco that makes copies of all emails, web browsing, and other Internet traffic to and from AT&T customers, and provides those copies to the NSA. This copying includes both domestic and international Internet activities of AT&T customers. As one expert observed, “this isn’t a wiretap, it’s a country-tap.”
EFF is fighting these illegal activities on multiple fronts. In Hepting v. AT&T, EFF filed the first case against a telecom for violating its customers' privacy. In addition, EFF is representing victims of the illegal surveillance program in Jewel v. NSA, a lawsuit filed in September 2008 against the government seeking to stop the warrantless wiretapping and hold the government officials behind the program accountable.
EFF is not alone in this fight. There are multiple cases challenging various parts of the illegal surveillance against both the telecoms and the government. This page collects information on EFF's cases as well as cases brought by individuals, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and of Illinois, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and others.
