Nipate
Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: bryan275 on February 01, 2015, 07:21:43 PM
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. Eric Schmidt is an influential figure, even among the parade of powerful characters with whom I have had to cross paths since I founded WikiLeaks. In mid-May 2011 I was under house arrest in rural Norfolk, about three hours’ drive northeast of London. The crackdown against our work was in full swing and every wasted moment seemed like an eternity. It was hard to get my attention. But when my colleague Joseph Farrell told me the executive chairman of Google wanted to make an appointment with me, I was listening.
In some ways the higher echelons of Google seemed more distant and obscure to me than the halls of Washington. We had been locking horns with senior US officials for years by that point. The mystique had worn off. But the power centers growing up in Silicon Valley were still opaque and I was suddenly conscious of an opportunity to understand and influence what was becoming the most influential company on earth. Schmidt had taken over as CEO of Google in 2001 and built it into an empire.1
I was intrigued that the mountain would come to Muhammad. But it was not until well after Schmidt and his companions had been and gone that I came to understand who had really visited me.
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
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A “don’t be evil” empire is still an empire.
A worthy read... No harm in Googling an ebook/ ePub version
http://minhateca.com.br/BibliotecaGRATIS/Livros+em+Ingl*c3*aas/Nonfiction+EPUB+Ebooks+Oct.+2014/Julian+Assange+-+When+Google+Met+WikiLeaks,124194853.epub (http://minhateca.com.br/BibliotecaGRATIS/Livros+em+Ingl*c3*aas/Nonfiction+EPUB+Ebooks+Oct.+2014/Julian+Assange+-+When+Google+Met+WikiLeaks,124194853.epub)
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Indeed a powerful empire together with FB and their subsidiaries including twitter and whatsapp- they basically knows the whos, the whats, the wheres of everyone in the world...which are then placed at service of the US gov...giving US gov incredible intelligence that one could only dream.
No wonder putin can only trust the old phone and fax.
Countries outside the US should investigate and sanctions any bridges on privacy and security that US companies in cahoot with State dept engage in.
Huge fines against google..or outright banning like china have done..could help them become less evil.
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Interesting read. Thanks.