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CIA Enlists Google's Help for Spy Work

technology.timesonline.co.uk — US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents share information about their suspects.

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  • exgop, on 03/31/2008, -27/+8More stupidity from the Bush administration.. Google hates America. Google hates freedom, google has contempt for the individual.
    • gethelaw, on 03/31/2008, -3/+18huh?
      • exgop, on 03/31/2008, -18/+4Google, blocks access to the internet in China for the Chinesse Government. Agents of Google Earth were seen taking pictures at US military bases. Google is not a friend of freedom
        • forgiste, on 03/31/2008, -1/+10NO, China blocks internet access in China. Google had to cooperate with their demands to keep people from using Google as a way around the federal firewall.
  • principle, on 03/31/2008, -1/+14I believe that this is the third attempt at implementing an intelligence sharing system. However, if this system works (unlike its predecessors), the intelligence community will not use it because they don’t want to share information and there is nothing Google can do about that.
    • mal1964, on 03/31/2008, -2/+1Not to mention how easy it would be to manipulate the information.
  • ProjectGSX, on 03/31/2008, -20/+18So much for Don't Be Evil.
    • bingobongony, on 03/31/2008, -8/+13How is this evil, moron?
      • CrazedLeper, on 03/31/2008, -1/+3You don't know the 10th of it.
        • bingobongony, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2No...I do. I am just not a little bitch who makes up scenarios and htne says "Based on my make believe world, this will be used for evil purposes.
    • CrankyHippo, on 03/31/2008, -0/+8Don't get to upset, he probably just read that title and doesn't actually get it. On the other hand he could just be a moron
    • Wonderama, on 03/31/2008, -1/+3I guess for some people helping the US government in any way is an act of Evil. Even those idiots for whom these acts may benefit. On the chance ProjectGSX3 is not a US citizen, he may get a Get Out of Idiot Jail Free pass on this one.
      • CrazedLeper, on 03/31/2008, -1/+3There are no terrorists. It is a pretext for world domination. Everyone the gov't wants to kill henceforth will now be known as "Al Qaeda". You're all being taken for a ride. I promise you will not like the destination when you get there.
        • Wonderama, on 04/01/2008, -0/+0Thanks for the non-sequitur.
          • CrazedLeper, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1oh, yeah. I suppose it is. It was intended as kind of an extension of the thought of helping the US Gov't.
  • salwud64, on 03/31/2008, -15/+17I am surprised that the CIA or Google would want this information public. This definitely takes my trust of Google down a few notches.
    • bingobongony, on 03/31/2008, -13/+7Not every company is filled with little pussies like you who see intelligence agencies as unnecesary evils.
      • dinostabOMG, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3You sure like to make yourself popular around these threads.
    • tfirma2000, on 03/31/2008, -0/+13Why does this take your trust in google down? Google's not divulging any information, they're just supplying software. By your logic, any companies that provide goods and services to the government should not be trusted. Did you use a bic pen today? How about a computer? Have you ever drunk bottled water? (I think the folks at CIA drink bottled water too). Or maybe you didn't read the article?
  • bmcnally, on 03/31/2008, -7/+5Didn't see that one coming
  • rudy23, on 03/31/2008, -2/+34I dont see why this matters. the government uses IBM laptops. o that makes IBM evil. what about the carpeting dude. he is evil too. this is just retarded.
    If google can provide some services to help them better organize their data more power to them.
    • serif69, on 03/31/2008, -10/+3All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed- casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. All right, look-you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia-this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.
      • brettmurf, on 03/31/2008, -2/+1What the ***** are you talking about?
      • mrdoyle, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1wasn't expecting a clerks reference
    • DreKor, on 03/31/2008, -1/+5http://www.googlestore.com/appliance/category.asp Really, anybody can buy The Google. They sell a bunch of turn-key apps and services. The whole "guilt by association" thing is pretty stupid.
      • doshomik, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Why Google is using Microsoft's ASP rather then free PHP ? :S
    • MoneyShot, on 03/31/2008, -1/+3IBM doesn't make laptops anymore. They sold their ThinkPad line to Lenovo, which is a Chinese company. Because of their Chinese roots, Lenovo products are prohibited by various federal agencies from being used where the user might be handling data sensitive to national security.
    • kahrn, on 03/31/2008, -2/+2What government uses IBM Laptops? The US Government? Not after Lenovo, as far as I know.
    • CrazedLeper, on 03/31/2008, -2/+1That's how fascism works. Governmedia+corporations v. people. It's going to get very ugly in here.
    • mal1964, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1Cool now I change the title, Its really Yahoo not Google.
  • Heikell, on 03/31/2008, -1/+24it's to help its agents share information read the article please. It does not say anything about google giving out Privacy Act information which I'm sure most of you don't even know what it is.

    Right now Google is helping us better share information too, in web searches. Read the damn article before you talk *****.
  • ThePerkins, on 03/31/2008, -7/+0google oogles.
  • BlindingDawn, on 03/31/2008, -11/+2Ok... Now I'm scared.
  • zerohex, on 03/31/2008, -10/+5Google should document their involvement if they wants people to trust them in the future.
  • Gryffydd, on 03/31/2008, -1/+18This was on Slashdot this morning and from what I read there this isn't so much Google being evil and helping with spying as it is them selling their search appliances to whomever, including government agencies.
  • mal1964, on 03/31/2008, -3/+6GIA
  • swrostmore, on 03/31/2008, -2/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfraGard
  • StiGUP, on 03/31/2008, -7/+2hmMm that can't be good
  • Acronym, on 03/31/2008, -7/+0meh first they took over the FB and now the google

    please bury my crappy posts
  • forgiste, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4I'd be happy if they shared this info. Google is a useful tool for creating transparency in government and society.
  • Asmodeus04, on 03/31/2008, -0/+15Yeah, I don't think anyone is actually reading the article.

    It's much easier to blame anyone in power or with money instead of reading...they're selling them technology to use INTERNALLY, not through Google's search engine.

    Spazzy diggers FTW.
    • jschrab, on 03/31/2008, -1/+4I totally agree with you - few are actually reading the article.

      If there is one take-away from 9/11 is that our intelligence agencies need to communicate better amongst themselves. We really didn't need a pile of new laws and a new department - just more intra-agency information sharing. This sounds like a serious step in the right direction. Intellipedia sounds like it could be an awesome tool.
  • Wargalas, on 03/31/2008, -0/+9So, Google is selling technology to the CIA and this is news how? Read the ***** article, it says nothing about Google sharing sensitive information about people, just how they search and classify information.
    • Asmodeus04, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2No kidding. I don't think half of Digg's reader actually read the article.
      • Wargalas, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2They're too busy blaming Bush for everything.
  • TheSabre, on 03/31/2008, -0/+7I don't see the big deal. I work for one of the mentioned intelligence agencies and we use the Google Appliance, which is available commercially to anyone that wants to use Google search technology in their internal environment. And we have a support contract with Google as any customer would. We also use Dell PCs. No one ENLISTED Google or Dell's help for spy work, we just purchased equipment like anyone else can.
  • raublekick, on 03/31/2008, -0/+8That article title sure isn't alarmist or misleading...
  • theplaz, on 03/31/2008, -1/+5This is like "CIA enlists Blackberries for Spy work". Do your really think the CIA would create their own search technology? It would be expensive and not work as well. Plus many businesses use Google's search appliances
  • liquidmetalband, on 03/31/2008, -5/+1Google has always been funded by the NSA.

    When you have a company with the white background and "Don't be evil" mantra, and the cult-like Google employees who treat work as some kind of university-playground hybrid, you know Google is trying to hide some very sinister work from the public.
    • fuzzmeister, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3Care to back that up with some facts, or would that ruin your delusional fun?
  • IronDonut, on 03/31/2008, -1/+5So the government is using the Google search appliances? That doesn't seem like such a big deal.
  • neko6, on 03/31/2008, -3/+2Putting top secret info on a single web server connected to the entire Internet... Why not, sounds like a kewl idea. :P
  • sirbeta, on 03/31/2008, -1/+3I find it comical how little people seem to understand what exactly is happening or look at the sensationalist headline and make a dumb remark. This isn't "evil" in the slightest sense. Google supplied them with merchandise.
  • jimmoses, on 03/31/2008, -3/+1Anyone worried about the privatization of spying on the general population might be interested in the "Privacy is dead" talk by Steve Rambam. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-383709537 ...
  • millsworks, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2Sharing intelligence + CIA = not that much to share.

    I'm not worried about it being "evil". I think the more these various neo-con military/industry semi-governmental outfits actually engage in true information sharing the more they'll figure out just how dumb-ass dirt stupid they've been all these years.

    Either that or they'll accidentally get us all blown to hell.

    Oh well.
  • Dunge, on 03/31/2008, -3/+1What to learn from this article: Don't write "lolita" or "preteen" in your google search.
    • Dunge, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4Or I might have read the article too fast before posting *****
  • gyronic, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1Hopefully the CIA can track down teh snukes with GOOGs help!
  • nerk01, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2People really need to learn to read the articles.

    All this really says is the same thing as "CIA uses Microsoft products to do their Spy Work". Google sells search appliances that provide google like search for a company's internal data. That's all this is!
  • BBlank, on 03/31/2008, -1/+0I wonder how this is going to affect the CIA's funding via AdSense ;^)
  • kingUssop, on 03/31/2008, -2/+2Asinine move. People trust Google with information. People DON'T trust the government since it abuses information (see: Iraq War) rather than handles it intelligently. Google shouldn't associate with them.
  • Arcueid01, on 03/31/2008, -2/+1Yeah this won't end up in a further hamper on our already almost non existent civil liberties. Are our representatives stupid? I suppose we all know the answer to this. The real question is then are Americans stupid. They keep on voting for the legislators who come up with some of the most idiotic ideas on the planet. WOW
  • rxbudian, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1Somehow I don't think this works. Usually terrorists and extremists are not very open minded, I doubt that they surf the net often and use search engines less because using search engines expose them to new ideas and would make them question their own ideas and orders. So my conclusion is that they will not use google or any other search engines enough to justify the cost of building a tracking system.
  • nastronomical, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2

    Here is an example of people losing their civil liberties:


    "The Dutch prosecutor’s office is preparing to take legal action against the maker of an ‘anti-Koran’ film in an attempt to ease tensions over the film’s release, the Dutch foreign minister said on Monday…
    Although moderate Islamic groups have said the film is “nothing new” and have made appeals for Muslims to “react calmly and within the law,” the prospect of a backlash in the Islamic world remains a distinct possibility."


    See folks when a govt does something like the above to not offend any group and take away freedom of speech...this is scary. Unfortuanetly this might happen here.......because of cowards on the left!
  • phazon88, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1***** Google.
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