Clandestine Operations at Google 166
eldavojohn writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is running an interesting story about Google's involvement with the CIA, NSA, NOAA and several other agencies. This has been speculated before although now Google seems to have several contracts open with several agencies. From the article, "When the nation's intelligence agencies wanted a computer network to better share information about everything from al Qaeda to North Korea, they turned to a big name in the technology industry to supply some of the equipment: Google Inc. The Mountain View company sold the agencies servers for searching documents, marking a small victory for the company and its little-known effort to do business with the government. 'We are a very small group, and even a lot of people in the federal government don't know that we exist,' said Mike Bradshaw, who leads Google's federal government sales team and its 18 employees.""
Re:Clandestine? (Score:5, Funny)
Google Thunderstorm (Score:5, Funny)
Almost had the evil government owns Google effect there, unless we are suggesting that Google now controls the weather as well.
Orly? (Score:4, Funny)
*ring ring*... *ring ring*... oh, there's someone on the FU**ING CLUEPHONE FOR YOU.
it's like wikipedia (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Google Thunderstorm (Score:5, Funny)
NOAA?! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Clandestine? (Score:5, Funny)
Do no evil? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:sneaky weather men (Score:3, Funny)
Open Source Intelligence (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Needs to be said (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The NSA has always done this (Score:5, Funny)
They're probably too busy smokin pot to finish it up...
that's right, REEFER!
Re:Clandestine? (Score:5, Funny)
New Google motto (Score:3, Funny)
Don't be [REDACTED].
Re:In soviet amerika, google searches YOU (Score:0, Funny)
What is an identity theft but a stolen set of identity documents?
What is a government spying policy but access to individuals' documents?
Read between the lines - The only part of this article that is NEWS
is the part where they have a business division that markets to the govt.
That part was probably not widely known. The cooperation was known.
"Servers for searching documents."
We went to war over aluminum tubes. Don't trivialize based upon vague quotes.
Re:Clandestine? (Score:3, Funny)
Breaking news? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The NSA has always done this (Score:5, Funny)
I did a search for that on Google, and nothing turned up.
ads (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Clandestine? (Score:3, Funny)
So what you are saying is that IKEA is EVIL then. :P
Beer for less! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:sneaky weather men (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, we at NOAA do oceanography too, and we had absolutely nothing to do with those reports of that giant-tentacled rubber-suit-looking creatures that washed up oh excuse me, my boss is trying to tell me someth
Re:Clandestine? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The NSA has always done this (Score:2, Funny)
Oblig XKCD (Score:2, Funny)