GoogleAndMassSurveillance

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Google was caught red-handed participating in NSA’s surveillance, which is both illegal under the U.S. constitutional framework*, and conducive to a totalitarian world where self-censorship under one all-seeing eye prevents alternative futures from flourishing from collaborative creative efforts of individuals.

Google’s business model of collecting all data and profiling everyone has set the trend towards generalized practices of mass-surveillance, normalized such practices, and punished those who try to evade constant surveillance (by sinking their time in training Google's AI on Google Scholar, for example).

Our behaviors, our intimate connections, actions and emotions Google is commodifying and profiting from. We are reduced to a resource and stunted in development as persons and communities capable of meaningful choice, in exchange for colorful convenient toys.

  • ) Constitutions of democracies worldwide are affected by this general attack on secrecy of correspondence and freedom of assembly in the digital age. In theory, your local government is in charge of protecting your population from outside forces threatening your constitutional democratic order, but our system of jurisprudence is such that you can only punish a government for doing something unlawful, you cannot easily punish it for not doing anything. So it depends on us to take to the streets, make a campaign, start a movement that demands the introduction of laws that technically impede surveillance -- for example by making end-to-end encryption and metadata protection *mandatory* for all digital communications, thus forbidding Google & friends from having access to them.


NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others - The Guardian (2013/06/06) =

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29 Prism - Wikipedia


Google, not GCHQ, is the truly chilling spy network - The Guardian, John Naughton

"how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/18/google-not-gchq--truly-chilling-spy-network


How the CIA Made Google - Insurge Intelligence / Medium - 2015

Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet— - Insurge Intelligence / Medium

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e

and part II Why Google made the NSA

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/why-google-made-the-nsa-2a80584c9c1

Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locations-even-when-location-services-are-disabled/


Google's Software is Malware - Free Software Foundation

(Most of the behavior described here is completely incompatible with EU data protection legislation)

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google


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