Yasha Levine at Pando Daily has a report on the alarmingly close relationship between Google and the Dept. of Defense.
At first glance, you wonder what all the fuss is about, since Google is a tech company…but as the report flows along, there is a link to this piece by Consumer Watchdog.
From the report:
When a deal between NASA and top Google executives to use the base was first disclosed in 2007, it called for only four jets to use the base.But newly released government records show that the Google executive 0leet has now grown to six jets and two helicopters, while at least 40 Google employees hold security badges at the base and all of the planes are supplied with Department of Defense jet fuel.~~~~~~~~~~
[Italics mine.]
Wow, if ever there were a quid pro quo…supplying Google with expensive jet fuel? Giving employees security clearance? And all Google has to do is cooperate with divulging private information in contradiction of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits agencies from intruding into people’s privacy without a court warrant…
…but Google execs are too busy jetsetting to Cannes, Tahiti, and other places of interest…on the taxpayer dime…
Keyhole? What an apt name for the company…funded by the CIA…that was to become Google Earth. There’s just something unnerving to see one’s home on the internet for anyone to see. Keyhole, indeed.
I do find it ironic and slightly amusing that the emails going back and forth from the Google execs and the various gov’t. agencies are being used against them…they seem to forget that their own privacy is abused by the system they created.
As I am reading this, I’m wondering why they would have to use Google at all? Why is there such a push for privatization, when these services should be from government employees/agencies? Not that I’m advocating invasion of privacy, mind you, but questioning the privatization movement that gets short term $$ gains by selling off public interests in land and intellectual property that was paid for by public funds. And, of course, the lack of sunlight when something goes from public to private.
~~~~~As a side note…when I saw Eric Schmidt’s bespectacled face…I got a chill down my spine. Perhaps it’s because he just looks like a Nazi…and not a true evaluation of him…but there it is.
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