Posted on 06/12/2013 11:29:36 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Edited on 06/12/2013 11:30:50 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Google on Wednesday pushed harder to downplay its role in a secret national surveillance program, detailing for the first time how it typically hands over data to federal officials.
Surprisingly, the global innovator uses decidedly simple and low-tech methods, including the delivery of information by hand or by transferring files from one computer to another.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
[. . .along with her belief that the Democrats will now win every election using the database.]
That could be cause for a federal antitrust suit.
More important, who is representing the citizen's interests at these FISA hearings. If only one side shows up; it's like getting an indictment - as is often said “you can indict a ham sandwich” because there is no one to challenge what you say!
If FISA court proceedings are secret; if no one is representing the “people” (although the A.G. is supposed to be - what a laugh), who is monitoring them on our behalf? The judges, so we are told, are rubber stamps (damn, now I'll get audited) - who protects us??
Given the rate and volume of these file transfers, how exactly does that pass for "low tech"?
ROTFL
Thanks for the memories! Have not seen one of those babies since my college programming classes on a DEC 10.
Dear Google Execs,
Has your company ever provided, to any agency of the United States federal government, any data, metadata, or any information whatsoever regarding my Google account, with or without my name included? Has your company ever provided any of same to any of the same regarding my Google usage, where my account name or my account email address or any account identifier was coupled with usage metrics?
Joe User
I noticed that the Washington Post had linked in a list of the ten biggest leakers in U. S. History right beside the reports on Snowden.
In this manner, I think the seek to influence public opinion, showing clearly damaging reports to U. S. security, to this incident that protects individual security.
Let’s be clear about something here. Former spies and leakers divulged information that caused potential harm to the nation and it’s assets.
Snowden merely revealed a policy. He didn’t provide methods and names. He didn’t expose our operative’s names on foreign soil. He merely exposed what the government was doing wrong.
He really doesn’t compare to the other spies and leakers IMO. And so it goes in the Amerika the Washington Post seeks to strengthen.
WTF is this “Google” you speak of? Oh, I’d almost forgotten...it’s the company that displayed communist azzhole Cesar Chavez on their front page instead of EASTER.
I switched to Bing that day and have not used their page since. EFF Google.
They should not hand over that data. The whole thing is a massive violation of the Fourth Amendment, and likely the Fifth as well.
There are at least 2 Google Analytics that track Free Republic. Ghostery a Mozilla add on will stop them.
“along with her belief that the Democrats will now win every election using the database.”
Voting records too.
Metadata, realtime phone gps, political affiliation,
drone-strike. This could be automated. 10k drones, 3 hits
a day? If the ground crews could service multiple drones a
day then they could run everything out of DHS.
Naturally Google hasn't heard of Prism. Prism is only the application.
An rough allegory to Google’s explanation might be the Bank of America in Manhattan orders a billion dollars worth of T-Bills and pays for it by hiring temporary laborers to haul cash in duffel bags to the New York Federal Reserve.
Google provides the world’s largest repository of anti-Semitic material in the world, YouTube. And conversely, say mean things about Islam on YouTube and see how long it takes to get suspended. Google is an extreme liberal socialist anti-Western values Co.
Deny easy access to your search data. Avoid Google and rotate through other search engines. Dogpile, DuckDuckGo, Ixquick, Blekko, etc. Use the Tor network where possible. Use TAILS https://tails.boum.org/
Google has Ingress. http://www.ingress.com/ Worldwide tracking for any/many individuals via their cell phones. Entertainment addicted people provide free beta testing services for them.
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