{"id":281706,"date":"2010-02-05T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75866"},"modified":"2010-02-05T10:24:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T15:24:11","slug":"google-nsa-resolve-to-be-more-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/281706","title":{"rendered":"Google, NSA Resolve to Be More Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Shachtman has a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wired.com\/~r\/WiredDangerRoom\/~3\/rttmJExSF7c\/\">great post<\/a> about Google&#8217;s decision to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2010\/02\/google-seeks-nsa-help\/\">ask the National Security Agency help the company defend itself against cyberattacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But there\u2019s a problem. The NSA and its predecessors also have a long history of spying on huge numbers of people, both at home and abroad. During the Cold War, the agency worked with companies like Western Union to intercept and read millions of telegrams. During the war on terror years, the NSA teamed up with the telecommunications companies to eavesdrop on customers\u2019 phone calls and internet traffic right from the telcos\u2019 switching stations. And even after the agency pledged to clean up its act \u2014 and was given wide new latitude to spy on whom they liked \u2013 the NSA was still caught \u201covercollecting\u201d on U.S. citizens. According to The New York Times, the agency even \u201ctried to wiretap a member of Congress without a warrant.\u201d<span id=\"more-75866\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>All of which makes the NSA a particularly untrustworthy partner for a company that is almost wholly reliant on its customers\u2019 trust and goodwill. We all know that Google automatically reads our Gmail and scans our Google Calendars and dives into our Google searches, all in an attempt to put the most relevant ads in front of us. But we\u2019ve tolerated the automated intrusions, because Google\u2019s products are so good, and we believed that the company was sincere in its \u201cdon\u2019t be evil\u201d mantra.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is really\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/75832\/civil-libertarians-reject-obamas-guantanamo-closure-plan\">some week to be a civil libertarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Shachtman has a\u00a0great post about Google&#8217;s decision to\u00a0ask the National Security Agency help the company defend itself against cyberattacks. But there\u2019s a problem. The NSA and its predecessors also have a long history of spying on huge numbers of people, both at home and abroad. During the Cold War, the agency worked with companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}