Google Recruited By CIA For Spy Work

Not only will this make it make it easier for these agencies to share information, it will be easier for W/Cheney to control THEIR OWN information. In other words, those agents who find and document information contrary to administration policy will find their information rewritten, just as we posters have ours rewritten, removed or otherwise altered.
Agents who keep files which are "controversial" will get warnings and be tracked as well.
This is more of the same Dictatorship at work; W's administration has finally caught on to the power of the internet and is trying to get control its own agencies, as there are...drum roll...rogue agents who tell the truth about WMDs and nuclear research in other countries W wants to bomb.

Whenever I hear those clicks and beeps on my cell phone, I don't think for a second it's a whacked out satellite.

Is there any news or media service that the CIA doesn't already control? Yes some real news does escape onto the internet, but I think they [secret agencies] have more control over it than you think.
Things are even censored and removed here on Huffington post.

Populism is the cure for the cancer of corporatism

and fascism is the goal of the Bush crime family.

So wake up out their in the never never land of computers. Seems almost unreal how Google has expanded during the Bush presidency and their attack on the rights of Americans. Funny how they give us all the free services. Gmail that saves all your email forever. I always had some doubt if Google and Microsoft were on our side with all these free information services, but are really on the dark side. Remember that this government, UNDER GOD, I mean, UNDER BUSH, has been known to twist the fact to suite their issues and agenda. Any company can be bought, when the spooks in the government wave the flag, and then call anyone who questions their wisdom as unpatriotic. Remember the telecoms helped with the domestic spying on AMERICA by the people that we hire to protect us. So why not Google, or Microsoft, or maybe your neighbor watching you, so they will not be called unpatriotic.

Google huffington post and it shows it's for sale,200M,3hrs ago.

Try getting a job, they'll have access to this stuff and we'll never be hired. Thats OK, a big Co. doesn't deserve us. We'll have to use our right brain and be creative. For Google, I'll just cancel the internet. I really don't need it, it's just for fun, when it's not fun anymore I'm done.

Bush sure did damage our faith in the interests of the intelligence agencies, didn't he? Ironic. They thought they were breaking all those laws so that they could protect us all from another attack, and instead what they've succeeded in doing is convincing everyone that they want to spy on our every move so they can control us better.

It's a sad, twisted world we live in. Incidently, ask yourself what legitimate need or desire the intelligence community would have in *you*. I know, what we're all afraid of is that we'll either be mistakenly targeted as an enemy, or we'll be blackballed by a real enemy in government. Google's participation will go a long way toward eliminating the first fear, but we've got to elect government officials we can trust to eliminate the second, don't we.

some people will do anything for money.

its a brave new world, with the lines between Government of, by and for the Corporation completely blurred by profits or a few.

I think folks here are getting the wrong idea about this. The intelligence community isn't co-opting Google to help them spy on people. They are going to Google to ask how they designed their AI computer system to pull relevant information out of the sea of noise. They're going to them for design ideas, not to take over Google or put some spy trap on internet search strings.

The biggest problem the intelligence community has today is it has too much data -- and not enough information. The difference is that data, alone, is meaningless. So they are going to Google to pick their brains on how they do their magic, because Google's search engine is the most sophisticated AI system on the planet. But that AI system only does one thing, which is figure out what you are really looking for when you enter a search string. Any system designed for intelligence, on the other hand, would have a different set of criteria and would pull information from their databases to help them identify patterns of activity.

Y'all seem to think the only thing on the Intelligence community's mind is picking through your garbage. Fact is, they'd much rather not have to deal with your garbage at all. A sophisticated AI system would let them get to the real information they need from the mounds of garbage they collect from all over the world every day. Right now, they are drowning in the noise.

We should all Google "Bush is an asshole" a few dozen times a day.

Sorry but the blogs so far are farcical. Makes my neighbor with his black helicopters sign almost seem rational. All Google is doing is suppling the data mining and organizational software to run within secure networks. Apparently the existing software has junked up the system, or is too precise to be used. Google and Yahoo both do this for their advertisers, and most of the large commercial websites have been using data mining applications for at least five years. We haven't had any privacy for a number of years. Getting upset about Google suppling software to the CIA is inane.

And for those who haven't read it, you really *should* read Cory Doctorow's short story, Scroogled, to understand just how evil Google could actually get if it worked closely with the government.

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html

We've been Scroogled!

mmmm... guess I need a new search engine.

This is a very very scary development. Not surprising given the way our government is going.

Google and any other web related search/ information gathering company should not be put in a position to work for any government agency without oversight i.e. a court order! This loose relationship is wrong and will lead to abuse ... you can count on it!!!

Welcome to 1984 (and I'm not kidding)!

When they agreed to be censored to expand into China they chucked the "do no evil" sign and became a typical American Corperation.I guess multi-millions of dollars only fuel greed instead of satisfying it. The problem is, unlike Home Depot or Goldman-Sachs, Google can be very dangerous to a free,open society.

Sorry I didn't make myself clear, My ISP sent me a notice all information will be sent to an agency in Canada. I meant to say this does by pass the FISA because this agency is outside the US territory.

THE BUSH folks keep telling America the senate/congress not doing their job. The just went around the law. We do not have freedom but our soldiers ae helping and dying for other nations freedoms,

so if I am taken away, don't say I warn you.

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I'm not surprised at all. The mass population has ABSOLUTELY no idea the power Google has. They control most of the web's traffic and have patents on how to further track the online behaviors of web users. Their ultimate goal is to organize the world's information. They're a great company but I am a little uncomfortable about their pact the with CIA.

Relax... the CIA is buying SOFTWARE developed by Google, that's all. Let's cool it with the Orwellian paranoia. As a liberal I'm pretty embarassed by responses like the ones I'm reading here. Trust me, there's plenty to get angry about when it comes to the govt. and/or large corporations, but this isn't one of those instances. Read the article before you jump to conclusions.

The scariest thing about this is the fact that mistakes are often made. So innocent people will be victimized.

Most of the people who do collatoral damage just walk in the front door of the White House (Bandar- close family friend of Bushes; Ahmed Calabi - advised Bush Administration to topple Saddam and set up different government, he said it would be easy...where is he now,do we still trust and like him? paraphrase- "what was said before isn't important, the point is that Americans are in Bagdad and Saddam is'n't there"). -By Paul Taylor, Financial TimesPublished: Sep 15, 2004

Most people who know me would probably agree that, on the whole, I am a pretty reasonable person willing to work my way calmly through most of what life - and technology - throws at me. There are, however, a few exceptions and one of them is "spyware", which makes me see red.

Spyware - software code that installs itself on a PC, often without the user's permission, and then relays information about the user back to a third party - is both an annoyance and a security threat.

see, its a good thing they havent passed the revised patriot act yet. We might have to worry that they could be spying on our every move.