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Google help America's Spy Agencies
Mar 31, 2008 03:56
  • YVONNE
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San Francisco Chronicle published an article "Google Has Lots to Do with Intelligence" saying that google help American intelligence agencies find stuff. It says that Google has lots of government customers ranging from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, to the U.S. Coast Guard, to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, to the National Security Agencies.
Googleearth is said to be closely linked to the intellipeadia, an intelligence network for American intelligence agencies. The report also said that google is involved in the " Conspiracy Theories".

For more info, you can follow this link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/29/BUQLUAP8L.DTL
Mar 31, 2008 14:44
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  • GARYKINKADE
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Doesn't surprise me
Involved in the "Conspiracy Theories" could be interpreted in two different ways, I need to read article.
Mar 31, 2008 14:46
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P.S. thanks for the article information.
Apr 2, 2008 23:01
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GUESTCOUNTERSPY Google collection information for FBI. It filmed other countries' military bases. Googleearth offers electronic maps that are filmed by satellites. Google is horrible spy.
Apr 3, 2008 00:00
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Shame on Google and I'm sure there are others.
Apr 16, 2008 01:18
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  • MUDDIEDKNEES
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<<Google collection information for FBI. It filmed other countries' military bases. Googleearth offers electronic maps that are filmed by satellites. Google is horrible spy.>>

Google does not take the pictures themselves. GoogleEarth merely displays an aggregation of commercially available satellite photographs. I'm not sure whether or not they are spying for the US government, but displaying the photographs in GoogleEarth is not spying at all. I think we need to worry more about Google harvesting user (and aggregated user information) and sharing this information to governments (not just the US government).

And let's not forget that Yahoo publicly admitted to giving government access to a user's email account, resulting in the arrest of this user for political reasons.
Apr 17, 2008 22:41
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GoogleEarth can clearly point where your house is. It is spying your privacy. It sounds like a " White Horror".
Apr 18, 2008 20:22
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Johnny, if I take an airplane, fly over your house, take a picture of your block, and then post this picture on the Internet, did I just 'spy' on your privacy? Unless your house is an important landmark, almost nobody would recognize it and very few would know that you live there.

Also, Google does not take these pictures. Google does not own satelites. These pictures are commercially available and anyone (any government, corporation, or individual) who can pay can purchase them. Google is doing ordinary individuals a favor by giving us access to information that are otherwise available only to the rich and well-connected.

BTW, Microsoft has a similar tool called Virtual Earth. You can access it at:

http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/
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