Google Helps CIA
The Times (of London) reports that Google is assisting the CIA and other intelligence agencies: the US intelligence agencies have recruited Google The Times (of London) reports that Google is assisting the CIA and other intelligence agencies: the US intelligence agencies have recruited Google “to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects.” They’ve bought servers on which Google-supplied search technology is used to process information gathered by networks of spies around the world,” and ” Google is also providing the search features for a Wikipedia-style site, called Intellipedia, on which agents post information about their targets that can be accessed and appended by colleagues.”
The contracts are just a number that have been entered into by Google’s ‘federal government sales team’, that aims to expand the company’s reach beyond its core consumer and enterprise operations.
In the most innovative service, for which Google equipment provides the core search technology, agents are encouraged to post intelligence information on a secure forum, which other spies are free to read, edit, and tag – like the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Depending on their clearance, agents can log on to Intellipedia and gain access to three levels of info – top secret, secret and sensitive, and sensitive but unclassified. So far 37,000 users have established accounts on the service, and the database now extends to 35,000 articles, according to Sean Dennehy, chief of Intellipedia development for the CIA.
Although some people immediately get their panties up in a bunch, I’ve got to say that I don’t see anything wrong with this per se.
Click on that last link; it’s an article at the Huffington Post. It’s well worth the read because it shows us what the extreme left truly thinks about companies. Let me quote:
Corporations aren’t inherently evil. When used for good, they can be efficient ways to serve the public, for example when building roads, bridges, and vast networks of infrastructure. Corporations can feed nations, vaccinate populations, and pump commerce into starved communities. We all use corporations, for advertising, for communication — to live our lives.
However, when corporations are publicly traded, their divided shares belong to the public. They exist to serve the people, just as the government serves the people. A corporation is only as good as the sum of its parts, and if corrupt men and women run a corporation, the entire entity goes bad. If a CEO decides to betray the public’s trust, and hands over a list of customer names to the government, then that corporation has become the public’s enemy.
Huge spy networks designed to catch terrorists are potentially faulty. Innocent people inevitably fall victim to erroneous accusations, and may suffer dire consequences because corporations are now serving a tyrannical government instead of the American people.
“Serving a tyrannical government”?
Serving the government is the opposite of serving the American people? Lets pretend that the president is a Democrat; suddenly, it seems to me, the two are one and the same according to the merry posts at the HuffPo.
What’s more interesting, though, is what Allison Kilkenny writes about companies: they “are not inherently evil.” Sure, most companies are not inherently evil, it’s just that they’ve become evil because… because what? Right: because they forget to serve the people.
Serve the people? Since when is a company the government or a charity? Companies don’t serve “the people” when they sell stocks; they serve the stockholders. Them, and no one else does the company serve. And how does the company serve them best? By making a big profit.
And the rest of the people? The rest of the people aren’t “served” by the company. The rest of the people can use the (services of the) company if they believe the company delivers good, beautiful, useful products… or not. Companies don’t owe “the people” anything, nor do “the people” owe companies anything.
Neither one is serving the other one.
Too sick for words. Reading those two last paragraphs reminded me a bit too much of communism. Allison should stop calling herself a liberal. She isn’t even a moderate socialist – trust me, I know a lot of moderate socialists and even they don’t talk about companies like Allison does.
That was the one sentence designed to make the rest of the post appear as if they understand business and it’s place in society.
Accurate, plus the ignorance of the left ignores the facts that Shareholders are people. The only time you hear the Libs acknowledge that is when a company fails to keep it’s stock price up when profits fall. That is when they scream that the company is not thinking of people who invested in them to provide for their own future. John Doe owns Publicly traded Company B, in his 401K, his Stocks, his Mutual Funds, his Pension plan is probably invested in that company. John would be served best to figure out how to work with Company A instead of against it.
anyway back to Google – IMO – good, and why did they not think of this years ago. A clearinghouse of information is exactly what is and was needed prior to 2001. if Jane Public is targeted by some Law Enforcement agency than a Wikki on them will not suddenly create the scenario that already existed for them, it would only potentially expand the existing scenario.
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