{"id":186,"date":"2006-09-03T07:01:15","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T11:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2006-09-03T07:01:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T11:01:15","slug":"google-and-privacy-its-worse-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Google and privacy: it’s worse than that"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine, a very well-connected professor of computer sciences — he knows who he is, and so, if he’s right, do the CIA, <\/span>the FBI, <\/span>and so on — writes about the Google piece<\/a> last week:<\/p>\n\n

Had only to add that, if one thinks that it’s only commercial stumbles that are now letting this kind of info out — one would be badly off the mark… Like the NSA <\/span>phone listening, since 2002 or so, the US has been accumulating and using just this kind of detail — all of it, as far as I understand things. Every email. Every link, recorded. Every jot and tittle. We know because we see the grants coming in to [where I work] from the DHS, <\/span>and other places – it might be that as much as 40% of all computer science research funding is in this area, now that DARPA <\/span>has slowed down. You can imagine the AOL <\/span>scenario, magnified a million times.
\nIt’s all happening, right now, even with this email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

The way this is done, he says, is essentially the same way that the US government fdoes its phone mining. The law there said that telephone companies, obviously, where allowed to share data with each other, so the NSA <\/span>built an entire telephone network of its own, which could then peer with the public one. This gives the government complete access to everything on anyone’s telephone line.<\/p>\n\n

Similarly, he says, the US government has built, like Google, a shadow internet, containing copies of everything it can find – though with the added twist that it also has access to all the traffic passing through the network if it wants. Think Slitscan<\/a> in the hands of Dick Cheney.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine, a very well-connected professor of computer sciences — he knows who he is, and so, if he’s right, do the CIA, <\/span>the FBI, <\/span>and so on — writes about the Google piece last week: Had only … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}