CFR member Google is once again in bed with governments and other shady organisations, this time it is the CIA, the web just became a darker place.
If you think Google censorship is bad now, try waiting a couple of months, by that time Google's memory hole should have its own gravitational field...
http://insidegoogle.com/2010/07/consumer-watchdog-praises-attorneys-general-for-google-probe-renews-call-for-congressional-hearing-on-wi-spy-scandal/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/google-wifi-debacle/
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The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”
It’s not the very first time Google has done business with America’s spy agencies. Long before it reportedly enlisted the help of the National Security Agency to secure its networks, Google sold equipment to the secret signals-intelligence group. In-Q-Tel backed the mapping firm Keyhole, which was bought by Google in 2004 — and then became the backbone for Google Earth.
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