Post by Onyango Oloo on May 16, 2017 17:15:40 GMT 3
As I was surfing the net, I came across a very interesting article.
Its title was:
The Cloud Panopticon: Google, Cloud Computing and the Surveillance-Industrial-Complex
by Christopher Ketcham – Travis Kelly
Here is an excerpt from the opening paragraph:
In June 2007, Privacy International, a U.K.-based privacy rights watchdog, cited Google as the worst privacy offender among 23 online companies, ranking the “Don’t Be Evil” people below Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, eBay, LinkedIn, Facebook and AOL. According to the report, no other company was “coming close to achieving [Google’s] status as an endemic threat to privacy.” What most disturbed the authors was Google’s “increasing ability to deep-drill into the minutiae of a user’s life and lifestyle choices.” The result: “the most onerous privacy environment on the Internet.” Indeed, Google now controls an estimated 70 per cent of the online search engine market, but its deep-drilling of user information – where we surf, whom we e-mail, what blogs we post, what pictures we share, what maps we look at, what news we read – extends far beyond the search feature to encompass the kind of “total information awareness” that privacy activists feared at the hands of the Bush Jr. administration’s much-maligned Total Information Awareness program.
And the following is the link to the entire story. Please read on:
www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/12/the-cloud-panopticon-google-cloud-computing-and-the-surveillance-industrial-complex/
Its title was:
The Cloud Panopticon: Google, Cloud Computing and the Surveillance-Industrial-Complex
by Christopher Ketcham – Travis Kelly
Here is an excerpt from the opening paragraph:
In June 2007, Privacy International, a U.K.-based privacy rights watchdog, cited Google as the worst privacy offender among 23 online companies, ranking the “Don’t Be Evil” people below Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, eBay, LinkedIn, Facebook and AOL. According to the report, no other company was “coming close to achieving [Google’s] status as an endemic threat to privacy.” What most disturbed the authors was Google’s “increasing ability to deep-drill into the minutiae of a user’s life and lifestyle choices.” The result: “the most onerous privacy environment on the Internet.” Indeed, Google now controls an estimated 70 per cent of the online search engine market, but its deep-drilling of user information – where we surf, whom we e-mail, what blogs we post, what pictures we share, what maps we look at, what news we read – extends far beyond the search feature to encompass the kind of “total information awareness” that privacy activists feared at the hands of the Bush Jr. administration’s much-maligned Total Information Awareness program.
And the following is the link to the entire story. Please read on:
www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/12/the-cloud-panopticon-google-cloud-computing-and-the-surveillance-industrial-complex/