In Russia you watch T.V. In America the T.V. watches you!
Posted on 06/12/2013 8:37:16 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Stung by criticism of their role in newly revealed government surveillance programs, Google (GOOG) and other leading Internet companies responded Tuesday by calling on federal authorities to let them tell the public more about the National Security Agency's secret efforts to gather data on Internet users.
The new response from Google, Facebook and Microsoft came as a coalition of civil liberties groups urged Congress to conduct a broad investigation of the government's data-gathering, the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging a separate surveillance program involving phone records and a poll showed that Americans are sharply divided over whether such surveillance is justified.
Being required to keep government requests secret is helping fuel speculation that Google is giving the government "unfettered access to our users' data," complained David Drummond, the company's chief legal officer, in a blog post. He added that news reports to that effect "are simply untrue."
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
and there would be no lying. LOL
In Russia you watch T.V. In America the T.V. watches you!
Maybe Mom wasn’t crazy after all.
but but but spying is alright to the sheep , because they have always done it and they do nothing wrong.
H;es a traitor, why
he gave secrets away
what secrets
I don’t know
why is a traitor
he hurt the country
in what way
he took secrets
what secrets
I don’t know
The stupidity is simply stunning.
As of this morning, Google just wanted this so they could reassure us we’re all overreacting.
“There is a “serious misperception” about the National Security Agency’s PRISM program, Google chief legal officer David Drummond said in an exclusive interview with Fox News.”
Didn’t these guys all say they didn’t allow that to happen? I thought Google was one of them the day it broke claiming innocence.
You'd be wise to put the shovel down before you bury yourself.
yep ... when telling what one is paid to tell, by those in D.C., one can believe. Did I say that?
Yes, as I recall they war dumbfounded at the idea that there was any NSA activity. Now we hear they have NSA orders?
Google, Facebook and Microsoft do a CYA move.
Pretty funny coming from these guys, Microsoft has been putting in an NSA Backdoor in their Operating Systems since the Beginning of Microsoft.
Or just wait a few days and Greenwald will do it for yinz.
Well, that took long enough. I’d be very happy to hear what Google, Facebook, and Microsoft do with the data after the Feds get done telling us what they do. Not gonna happen.
What's also fueling the speculation is the fact that you can't seperate Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and Barack Obama with a crowbar.
Schmidt, a heavyweight Democrat donor, created a data-mining operation inside the 2012 Obama campaign with some of the top brains in the field. The advantage such a high-powered team would give to a candidate is awesome. Recently Google reassembled this team to form a political strategy firm that will work exclusively for Democrats in the 2014 elections.
I'm not saying this outfit isn't legit but just in case it isn't, one can only imagine the damage they could do to an opponent and the powers of manipulation they might employ on the news media, on search engines and on electronic voting systems.
I've never been a big fan of federal antitrust actions but in the case of Google I might change my mind.
Yep. They lied....we all knew it too. Now they want to lie some more to convince the sheep ‘everything is alright’.
What do people expect from a free service ?
Read the fine print. I hear ya.
To Google:
“Prove it.”
A betrayal against Google, Facebook and Microsoft investors is treason. Submit all of your communications to us, and buy! And stop reproducing!
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