The Cloud Panopticon: Google, Cloud Computing and the Surveillance-Industrial-Complex

Christopher Ketcham & Travis Kelly

EXTRACT:

“When private data is held by a third party like Google, the Supreme Court has ruled that you ‘assume the risk’ of disclosure of that data.” When you store e-mail at Gmail – or, similarly, in the cloud at Yahoo or Hotmail – “you lose your constitutional protections immediately.”

Phi Beta Iota: The time has come to kill Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media offerings that do not offer anonymnity, privacy, rights, and security at the individual level. #GoogleGestapo should be a commonly-used hashtag.

See Especially:

Steele, Robert. “The Battle for the Soul of the Republic,” Reality Magazine, April 10, 2012.

Review: The Big Disconnect – Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet)

See Also:

#GoogleGestapo @ Phi Beta Iota

Deep State @ Phi Beta Iota

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