Logingoogle.com and the NSA...
astro_man23
11 years, 10 months ago at Jun 14 20:27 - So I hopped online today like millions of people around the world and was taken to my trusty homepage of god knows how many years, google.com.
"Security and privacy are not optional. Stand with a broad coalition to demand that the NSA stop watching us: stopwatching.us"
(Maybe it's just here in the U.S. that the message appears?)
Is it just me or does anybody else find this stupidly hypocritical coming from a massive corporation in the business of secretive data collection?
"Security and privacy are not optional. Stand with a broad coalition to demand that the NSA stop watching us: stopwatching.us"
(Maybe it's just here in the U.S. that the message appears?)
Is it just me or does anybody else find this stupidly hypocritical coming from a massive corporation in the business of secretive data collection?
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Michael S
11 years, 10 months ago at Jun 14 22:39 - There's not much about the 'modern' world that isn't ridiculous, if you look at it in the right light. ;)
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The O.P.
11 years, 10 months ago at Jun 20 12:25 - @astro_man23
If you don't like being spied on for national security reasons (U.S. govt. says it helped stop some security threats, though), I think you should complain with the US Congress which passed the Patriot Act in 2001, or with the US government which used it to collect data secretly, not with corporations like Google which tried to resist government requests, according to this piece of news.
"Google tried to resist FBI requests for data, but the FBI took it anyway"
June 6, 2013 5:19 PM
Rebecca Grant
Google tried to resist government requests to provide private information about its users.
Google filed a petition in March 2013 resisting a national security letter (NSL) from the FBI demanding that it offer up private information about its users.
NSLs enable intelligence organizations to send secret requests to web and telecom companies to gather data that is “relevant to an investigation.” They do not need a judge’s approval and come with a gag order. The FBI’s and NSA’s ability to issue NSLs was expanded under the Patriot Act, which passed in 2001 and President Barack Obama renewed in 2011 to give the U.S. government broad-reaching powers to collect data on Americans.
[...snip...]
Full article:
venturebeat.com/2013/06/06/google-tried-to-resist-fbi-requests-for-data-but-the-fbi-took-it-anyway
If you don't like being spied on for national security reasons (U.S. govt. says it helped stop some security threats, though), I think you should complain with the US Congress which passed the Patriot Act in 2001, or with the US government which used it to collect data secretly, not with corporations like Google which tried to resist government requests, according to this piece of news.
"Google tried to resist FBI requests for data, but the FBI took it anyway"
June 6, 2013 5:19 PM
Rebecca Grant
Google tried to resist government requests to provide private information about its users.
Google filed a petition in March 2013 resisting a national security letter (NSL) from the FBI demanding that it offer up private information about its users.
NSLs enable intelligence organizations to send secret requests to web and telecom companies to gather data that is “relevant to an investigation.” They do not need a judge’s approval and come with a gag order. The FBI’s and NSA’s ability to issue NSLs was expanded under the Patriot Act, which passed in 2001 and President Barack Obama renewed in 2011 to give the U.S. government broad-reaching powers to collect data on Americans.
[...snip...]
Full article:
venturebeat.com/2013/06/06/google-tried-to-resist-fbi-requests-for-data-but-the-fbi-took-it-anyway
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11 years, 3 months ago at Feb 8 5:09 - This stuff is made out into a big deal, but no one wants to talk about Facebook or Google who are doing the same fucking thing the NSA does and they've been doing it for years and much better.
It's only a problem with the government does it, but when it's the bourgeois, no one gives a shit. If you did what Mark Zuckerburg has done, there's no way you would get away with it and become a billionaire like he did, no you would be in jail for hacking into Harvard passwords and data.
Google has more satellites up in space than NASA does. A privately owned corporation can get away with just about anything and everything. If you're going to complain about the NSA, then what about the big businesses like Google? No one has said a thing about what they do, and it's been going on a lot longer than the NSA thing has. No one ever talks about how the "Terms of Service" is literally legal fraud even in of itself.
Now Google is trying to blame it on da gubahment but it's not working because Google has been doing it for a real long time and they should be in fucking jail for it, same with Mark Zuckerburg who does all kinds of criminal things.
It's only a problem with the government does it, but when it's the bourgeois, no one gives a shit. If you did what Mark Zuckerburg has done, there's no way you would get away with it and become a billionaire like he did, no you would be in jail for hacking into Harvard passwords and data.
Google has more satellites up in space than NASA does. A privately owned corporation can get away with just about anything and everything. If you're going to complain about the NSA, then what about the big businesses like Google? No one has said a thing about what they do, and it's been going on a lot longer than the NSA thing has. No one ever talks about how the "Terms of Service" is literally legal fraud even in of itself.
Now Google is trying to blame it on da gubahment but it's not working because Google has been doing it for a real long time and they should be in fucking jail for it, same with Mark Zuckerburg who does all kinds of criminal things.
astro_man23
10 years, 9 months ago at Jul 26 3:52 - Americans don't give a flying fuck about things until they can no longer buy the next iPhone or have bananas at 69 cents a pound at the local Shit-Mart. Nevermind the fact that corporations have weasled their way into unprecedented power in the last 15 years and that they now control everything. Fuck you, they control everything I said.
Who cares as long as we can keep stuffing our fat Baby Huey faces with KFC and $5 large pizzas? The important thing is that nothing else in the world matters worth a shit as long as we Americans can maintain our current obese lifestyle of materialism and self-destructive wastefulness. That's our goddamn american right, for christsake.
Oh it's kinda like how no one gives a flying shit about children being dispossessed and slaughtered by military munitions as long as its Israel pulling the trigger?
Ooops, I just made a political statement. And here's something else. There's no way in hell 9/11 was carried out by 19 hillbilly dumbshits living in a cave halfway across the world. You have to be stupid to believe that. There, I said it.
Who cares as long as we can keep stuffing our fat Baby Huey faces with KFC and $5 large pizzas? The important thing is that nothing else in the world matters worth a shit as long as we Americans can maintain our current obese lifestyle of materialism and self-destructive wastefulness. That's our goddamn american right, for christsake.
Oh it's kinda like how no one gives a flying shit about children being dispossessed and slaughtered by military munitions as long as its Israel pulling the trigger?
Ooops, I just made a political statement. And here's something else. There's no way in hell 9/11 was carried out by 19 hillbilly dumbshits living in a cave halfway across the world. You have to be stupid to believe that. There, I said it.
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10 years, 9 months ago at Jul 30 20:47 - ^
This too shall pass.
This too shall pass.