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.""
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Google and the IRS (Score:5, Interesting)
sneaky weather men (Score:4, Interesting)
Needs to be said (Score:1, Interesting)
Was the sale of those punchcard machines evil?
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Re:Clandestine? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:In soviet amerika, google searches YOU (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Trickledown (Score:4, Interesting)
Unless it's a typeo, or Google is simply trying to avoid having to move a mountain of red tape every time it does something, that does look a little fishy.
The Dept of State Does This (Score:3, Interesting)
I bet that..... (Score:3, Interesting)
Where do people come up with this stuff? If they used Apache, MySQL, Oracle, Linux, Unix, a computer, a PC, a Mac or whatever would that also make the news? Perhaps there should be an article for each! Sheesh!