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Google details how it hands over data to federal officials
Washington Post ^ | June 12, 2013 | By Cecilia Kang

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.


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TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: civis; google; googlerico; googletreason; prism; rico; treason
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1 posted on 06/12/2013 11:29:36 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“We leave the key under a rock out in the parking lot of our headquarters. And over the weekend while we are closed, the Feds use it to break in and take everything”.


2 posted on 06/12/2013 11:31:19 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Hey google, did it ever occur to you to JUST SAY NO?


3 posted on 06/12/2013 11:31:58 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

This from a company that just days ago had never heard of prism.


4 posted on 06/12/2013 11:32:29 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Brad from Tennessee
The "how" isn't nearly as important as the "what", "how much" and "who".
5 posted on 06/12/2013 11:34:37 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I suspect that Google runs the DNC database that Maxine Waters was bragging about. “It knows everything about every American”, she said, along with her belief that the Democrats will now win every election using the database.


6 posted on 06/12/2013 11:34:51 AM PDT by DBrow
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That could include putting data onto a floppy disk

Google's IT department still uses floppy disks???? Seriously???

Do they listen to music on 8 track tapes?

7 posted on 06/12/2013 11:35:14 AM PDT by Alex in chains
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Hey google, did it ever occur to you to JUST SAY NO?

Fat chance. Eric Schmidt is a big time democrat party money boy, and he has ambitions that go way beyond running a tech company. It's only a matter of time before he runs for elected office or gets appointed to some high position.

9 posted on 06/12/2013 11:36:26 AM PDT by jpl (The government spent another half a million bucks in the time it just took you to read this tagline.)
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Googles president set it up for the dnc. It’s name is Civis


10 posted on 06/12/2013 11:37:29 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: Black Agnes

Yes, weren’t they just denying passing data to the feds? Are we supposed to believe the latest? Or the fed story that. Archived data can only be viewed with a warrant?


11 posted on 06/12/2013 11:37:35 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Hold the pig steady)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Google and this WH swap staff,,they are besties who cannot be disconnected.


12 posted on 06/12/2013 11:41:20 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I don’t care. Google is like GM. Goodbye.


13 posted on 06/12/2013 11:42:27 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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Hit Google where it hurts, in the pocket book, fist boycott the movie.


14 posted on 06/12/2013 11:45:06 AM PDT by SilverMine (IF the US gøvt says it is a lie.)
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“That could include putting data onto a floppy disk or external hard drive”

After reading the comments, I’m glad I’m not the only one who found this extremely bizarre wording.

It’s as if Google is trying to say “The statement we’re giving you is BS.” in the only way that it legally can.


15 posted on 06/12/2013 11:49:38 AM PDT by PlanToDisappear
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Scrambling to cover their butts I see.


16 posted on 06/12/2013 11:51:38 AM PDT by madison10
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Floppy disks? WTF? Do they have a time machine or just some Televideo servers still lying around? Why not go all the way and give lie to the truth a nice spotlight ?
17 posted on 06/12/2013 11:52:50 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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This from a company that just days ago had never heard of prism.

Exactly. The leftist pigs at google are probably writing the algorithms to mine their data to further the goals of the Stalinist left.

18 posted on 06/12/2013 11:58:35 AM PDT by sand88
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To: Brad from Tennessee

They were in the business of collecting user data from the gitgo.. no surprise.. that they are willing and able to swim with sharks speaks volumes.. just wait ‘til the schmidt hits the fan


19 posted on 06/12/2013 11:58:38 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --)
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To: Vendome

Holy bleep! A punch card, haven’t seen one of those for ages! Wow!


20 posted on 06/12/2013 11:59:21 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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