Google is helping the CIA get its blog on. The internet search engine giant will supply the technology for a Wikipedia-style intelligence site: Intellipedia.
Agents will post information about targets on a secure internal forum where they can read, edit, and tag their own content, as well as the content of other spies. There will be three levels of access: top secret, secret and sensitive, and sensitive but unclassified.
This is just one of the many lucrative contracts secured by Google's "Federal Government Sales Team." It is reassuring that the government is willing to look to the private sector for innovative national security technology.
But, does it make you at all nervous that Google, a company with unimaginable access to information about private citizens, is getting nice and cozy with the federal government?
Duccio Del Duca
Stuart Weitzman
Christian Dior
I feel like we should be afraid, but that it's probably way too late. Banks and credit cards have been tracking our spending, buying and travel habits for years; our social security numbers are in so many data bases that we have no real secrets.
1It makes sense for the government to want an easy and accessible way for the CIA to share information. I believe the government could find out anything they wanted to know about the private sector either way. The Google search engine is accessible to anyone, government agent or not, so if you have incriminating information on the internet about yourself, your privacy is compromised regardless.
2"There will be three levels of access: top secret, secret, and sensitive, and sensitive but unclassified." I count 4, not 3.
3Hey! "Secret and Sensitive" is one level. Sorry about that rogue comma!
4Doesn't make me nervous at all. If this means a safer America, thats fine. I'm not hiding anything.
5Nope not worried at all because I'm sure Google doesn't want to get cozy with a class action law suite for invasion of privacy for one. Two their powers that be are liberals they would have to be held at gun point to get too cozy with the CIA.
6It doesn't bother me much. As someone's pointed out already, it's not as if the government couldn't get a hold of every single thing we all do online anyway, and I doubt that Google's interested in anything more nefarious than cashing the check from that government contract.
7I'm scared.
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