Patriot Act Haunts Google Service »
Posted by: Neophile 5 months, 1 week agoThe initiative to reinvent the way that people use software is running headlong into another new phenomenon of the information technology age: the unprecedented powers of security officials in the United States to conduct surveillance on communications.
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berkeley5 months, 1 week ago
just as congress voted for the stupid law, it could revoke it at any time.
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1-2-Oscar5 months ago
More paranoia from the "Gang of Four?"
School officials had a choice. They chose to go cheap. Their decision has consequences. Boo hoo!
If Lakehead University really believes it has a problem because of the US Patriot Act, it is free to install an internal communications system at any time, with no repercussions. That's how grown-ups would handle this "problem."
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stephen-johnson5 months ago
The Patriot Act wouldn't be an issue in China for Google:
"Yet Google's conduct in China has in recent months seemed considerably less than idealistic. In January, a few months after Lee opened the Beijing office, the company announced it would be introducing a new version of its search engine for the Chinese market. To obey China's censorship laws, Google's representatives explained, the company had agreed to purge its search results of any Web sites disapproved of by the Chinese government, including Web sites promoting Falun Gong, a government-banned spiritual movement; sites promoting free speech in China; or any mention of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre."
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stephen-johnson5 months ago
Con't
"If you search for "Tibet" or "Falun Gong" most anywhere in the world on google.com, you'll find thousands of blog entries, news items and chat rooms on Chinese repression. Do the same search inside China on google.cn, and most, if not all, of these links will be gone. Google will have erased them completely."
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Grrr5 months ago
Google is nothing but the publicly traded arm of the CIA/NSA.
They are building HUGE datacenters, not for serving customers, but to sift our collected data on behalf of the US intelligence community. They know everything you ever searched 'em for, and so will the government. Like an alternative?
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Grrr5 months ago
So really, Oscar, why are you defending these mongrels? Invested? Socially, they are actively anti-privacy. Financially they are responsible for a massive market bubble all by themselves. They are the biggest ad spammer in the world, and we don't seem to mind because they make it pay by making it seem like an effective added value when it really is not. They are single handedly destroying the public web and already influence the flow of information to a greater degree than we acknowledge or realize.
They have a great collection of additional services and are providing much needed models for services that are affordable by individuals and small businesses, but people need to be aware that this comes at the cost of any informational privacy WHATSOEVER.
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1-2-Oscar5 months ago
I am not "defending mongrels." I am saying that Lakehead had a choice, and that they chose money over security. I know that such a distinction is lost on someone who posts, "Google is nothing but the publicly traded arm of the CIA/NSA." But it is possible that someone who can actually think will read this thread, and I don't want THEM to misunderstand.
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