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‘WORSE THAN EXPECTED’: Google, Verizon Announce Proposal To Create Tiered Internet
Aug 10th
So Google and Verizon went public today with their “policy framework” — better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it.
News of this deal broke this week, sparking a public outcry that’s seen hundreds of thousands of Internet users calling on Google to live up to its “Don’t Be Evil” pledge.
But cut through the platitudes the two companies (Googizon, anyone?) offered on today’s press call, and you’ll find this deal is even worse than advertised.
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Google and CIA Plough Millions Into Huge ‘Recorded Future’ Monitoring Project
Jul 29th
Google’s cosy relationship with the U.S. spy network has once again been thrust into the spotlight as the company is reported to have jointly invested with the CIA in an Internet monitoring project that scours Twitter accounts, blogs and websites for all sorts of information, and can also “predict the future”.
Google Ventures, the investment arm of Google, has injected a sum of up to $10 million, as has In-Q-Tel – which handles investments for the CIA and the wider intelligence network – into a company called Recorded Future.
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Google Saga Demonstrates That You Have Power
Jul 22nd
Following our article yesterday detailing the threat of a false flag cyber attack as a pretext to restrict the free Internet, the term ‘false flag cyber attack’ was sent to the top of the Google Trends charts:
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Group Calls for Hearings Into Google’s Ties to CIA and NSA
Jul 20th
More information has emerged about Google’s relationship with the government and spook agencies (see PR Newswire below). The revelations should come as no surprise.
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Every Google search to be logged and saved for two years under new Euro MP plan
Jun 7th
Every Google web search could be stored for up to two years under a controversial new EU plan that has the backing of more than 300 Euro-MEPs.
‘Written Declaration 29′ is intended to be used as an early warning system to stop paedophiles by logging what they look for using search engines.
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Google Says It Mistakenly Collected Data on Web Usage
May 16th
The camera of a German Google Street View car looms over the car next to the Google logo at the Google stand at the CeBIT Technology Fair on March 3, 2010 in Hannover, Germany.
The Internet giant said it would stop collecting Wi-Fi data from its StreetView vans, which workers drive to capture street images and to locate Wi-Fi networks. The company said it would dispose of the data it had accidentally collected.
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Google Shuts Down China Search
Mar 22nd
After months of speculation over when–and if–Google would leave China, Google has finally made a move: the search engine has officially stopped censoring search results on its China search engine and is redirecting Chinese searches through its Hong Kong server.
As Business Insider notes, ‘Google’s China domain, Google.cn now re-directs to Google.com.hk.’
Google.com.hk includes a note in Chinese that reads ‘欢迎您来到谷歌搜索在中国的新家’ (or, loosely translated, ‘Welcome to Google Search in China’s new home’).
Google has posted a blog regarding its approach in China.
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