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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Google as Big Brother

Laurel Papworth exposes Google as Big Brother.

The central witness in a California lawsuit against AT&T says the government is vacuuming up billions of e-mails and phone calls as they pass through an AT&T switching station in San Francisco.
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, helped connect a device in 2003 that he says diverted and copied onto a government supercomputer every call, e-mail, and Internet site access on AT&T lines.


So James was right all along. It is not at all surprising, more surprising that it is coming out at all. Life goes on la la la la.

If the Government gathered all this information by themselves, there would be a revolution few complaints. Why not delegate the task to one of the largest companies in the world? They can make a bundle of money and give it to the Government for free.

I'm off to hide in a remote pacific island and eat seaweed.

32 comments:

James Higham said...

What puzles me is that if this sort of thing is coming to light, which it must when one outsources in this way, are the powers that be 1. monolithically incompetent at heart or 2. not caring any more what people think?

Bag said...

This was well known a few years ago. A program called Carnivore has been collecting this data for ages. Nice to see that people are waking up to what is going on. In the film Swordfish, 2001, the hero has just come out of jail for sabotaging a Carnivore system to put the timeline into perspective.

james,The sellus a story and we know what is going on but it does not bother them because they think it will not be usedon them. The sheep are easily herded by a careful shepherd.

Colin Campbell said...

Don't be surprised if you two are some of the first to be rounded up for having robust independent thinking. Very subversive and dangerous.

david mcmahon said...

Make sure it's got wi-fi!

flametree said...

In Aus it's the law. Simple. At work, we can switch on monitoring on any internet service that we provide. We can copy all emails, track all website visits, monitor traffic to and from the IP for any given user. We have to have this ability acording to the law. And if the law wants to view these logs, they can.

BUT - they have to ask us first. If the law doesn't request us to monitor a user's traffic, then we don't bother tracking any user - it takes up far too much bandwidth and server space for storing the traffic and email logs of thousands upon thousands of users.

At least we don't feed it striaght to the government.

(I can vouch for this as I have access to the system reports that show which, if any, services are being monitored and I've only ever seen 2 or 3 accounts show up in the report that were).

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