{"id":3596,"date":"2010-02-04T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2010-02-04T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:28:12","slug":"is-the-nsa-google-partnership-an-intelligence-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3596\/is-the-nsa-google-partnership-an-intelligence-industrial-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the NSA-Google Partnership an Intelligence-Industrial Complex?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy advocates should be excused if for the last few days they\u2019ve been trudging about in sackcloth and ashes mourning the integration of tech and state.  After all, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundhog.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phil did see his shadow<\/a>.  On the heels of a report that there is a growing movement towards creating a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-10446503-38.html \" target=\"_blank\">national network for police<\/a> at all levels to electronically request and receive information from internet service providers, today it is announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/03\/AR2010020304057_pf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google is negotiating with the National Security Agency<\/a> (NSA).  The deal would somehow allow the NSA to analyze and advise Google on how to avoid high level hacking while shielding Gmail and other users from Big Brother\u2019s watchful eye.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck.  While I would hope NSA employs some of the best and brightest cyber security minds available, I\u2019d be surprised if Google couldn\u2019t hire them away.  Moreover, why does Google see the need to \u201cpartner\u201d with governments in areas where the probability of losing its independence is extremely high?  First, it was gulping back China\u2019s human rights record and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/4645596.stm \" target=\"_blank\">censorship practices<\/a>.  Now, the most influential tech company in the world is asking Uncle Sam to set up shop in its control room.<\/p>\n<p>Be on the lookout for that national police network.  With partners in the permanent government, it may not be long until Google gets asked to help usher in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/columnists\/article-512721\/How-did-allow-Britain-Stasi-state.html \" target=\"_blank\">British-style CCTV<\/a> (closed circuit television) monitoring program.  All for the good of the country, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy advocates should be excused if for the last few days they\u2019ve been trudging about in sackcloth and ashes mourning the integration of tech and state. After all, Phil did see his shadow. On the heels of a report that there is a growing movement towards creating a national network for police at all levels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,362,800,801],"class_list":["post-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-china","tag-google","tag-nsa","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3600,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}