Google Eats the World

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Postby Wombaticus Rex » Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:19 pm

"They were shielding themselves like I was trying to record them," as she narrates her recorded footage.

Holy shit.

What a vapid individual.
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Postby Perelandra » Sat Mar 22, 2014 2:00 pm

Another WTFO quote, "This is a great technology that can be used to prevent these types of incidents."
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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby coffin_dodger » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:48 am

Revealed: Apple and Google’s wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees
Pando Daily March 22, 2014

Back in January, I wrote about “The Techtopus” — an illegal agreement between seven tech giants, including Apple, Google, and Intel, to suppress wages for tens of thousands of tech employees. The agreement prompted a Department of Justice investigation, resulting in a settlement in which the companies agreed to curb their restricting hiring deals. The same companies were then hit with a civil suit by employees affected by the agreements.

This week, as the final summary judgement for the resulting class action suit looms, and several of the companies mentioned (Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm) scramble to settle out of court, Pando has obtained court documents (embedded below) which show shocking evidence of a much larger conspiracy, reaching far beyond Silicon Valley.

cont - http://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-ap ... employees/
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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby Grizzly » Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:14 pm

Google distances itself from the Pentagon, stays in bed with mercenaries and intelligence contractors

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“The United States government spends about $80 billion a year on information technology, making it the largest consumer of technology projects in the world.” —New York Times

With all the hubbub about NSA spying, Google’s PR people really want you to know how separate the company is from America’s military-industrial complex.

Earlier this week, Google made a big show of refusing DARPA funding for two robotics manufacturers it purchased, even though the companies themselves were financed with plenty of DoD cash. It’s a nice gesture, and one that was welcomed by those who want Silicon Valley to be free of government interference.

Unfortunately, while a crowd-pleasing announcement is good for Google’s public image, it does nothing to change the company’s long and ongoing history of working closely with US military and surveillance agencies.

Last week, I detailed how Google does much more than simply provide us civvies with email and search apps. It sells its tech to enhance the surveillance operations of the biggest and most powerful intel agencies in the world: NSA, FBI, CIA, DEA and NGA — the whole murky alphabet soup.

In some cases — like the company’s dealings with the NSA and its sister agency, the NGA — Google deals with government agencies directly. But in recent years, Google has increasingly taken the role of subcontractor: selling its wares to military and intelligence agencies by partnering with established military contractors. It’s a very deliberate strategy on Google’s part, allowing it to more effectively sink its hooks into the nepotistic, old boy government networks of America’s military-intelligence-industrial complex.

Over the past decade, Google Federal (as the company’s D.C. operation is called) has partnered up with old school establishment military contractors like Lockheed Martin, as well as smaller boutique outfits — including one closely connected to the CIA and former mercenary firm, Blackwater.

This approach began around 2006.

Around that time, Google Federal began beefing up its lobbying muscle and hiring sales reps with military/intelligence/contractor work experience — including at least one person, enterprise manager Jim Young, who used to work for the CIA. The company then began making the rounds, seeking out partnerships with with established military contractors. The goal was to use their deep connections to the military-industrial complex to hard sell Google technology.

And it worked.

The Washington Post summed up the success of Google’s new approach in 2010:

When Director Michael Bradshaw came to Google Federal about four years ago, he visited all the big government contractors in the federal market, going door to door to promote partnerships.

“A lot of people didn’t even know Google Federal existed,” Bradshaw said. “I think we were more of a novelty in their mind.”

Fast forward four years, and many traditional government contractors are clamoring to work with the company. Both sides sees advantages in the collaborations. Despite Google’s widespread commercial success, the partnerships help the Internet giant establish a beachhead in another lucrative market.

Who are some of these “traditional government contractors?” The Washington Post article mentioned Lockheed Martin. But there are plenty of others.

Looking at the non-classified government contracting database, we can see Google partnering with Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems Corp and tag-teaming the DoD for a $1-million contract to install a “webs Google Earth plug-in.” Northrop Grumman is one the top three of biggest arms manufacturers in the world. It designed the B-2 Stealth bomber, builds and outfits nuclear-powered submarines and nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. It is also intimately involved with all sorts of NSA surveillance operations, and was part of a team that designed Trailblazer — a multibillion-dollar mass Internet, e-mail and telephone surveillance system that was such a massive failure that it eventually had to scrapped.

In 2008, Google paired up with Eyak, a boutique military contractor based in Alaska, for a $2.735m DoD contract to install Google Earth. Like all good military contractors, Eyak’s execs were recently involved in $28 million bribery and kickback scheme.

You can check out Google’s other subcontracting gigs over at the Federal Procurement Data System — which range from just a few thousand dollars to multiple millions.

But Google partners for classified military/intelligence contracts are, unsurprisingly, not so easy to pin down.

From Google’s previously classified 2003 work order for the NSA, we know that in some cases the company is forbidden to disclose information or even admit the existence of contracts without authorization from the US government.

Stil, Google’s “Enterprise Government” page yields a few hints. On it, Google lists some of the companies it partners with to deliver products and services to the government.

Among them is California-based mega military contractor/quasi-government intel agency SAIC. According to Tim Shorrock’s book, Spies For Hire, half of SAIC 40,000+ employees hold security clearances — many of them having come straight from the NSA:

“Indeed, so many NSA officials have gone to work at SAIC that intelligence insiders call the company ‘NSA West.’ SAIC also does a significant amount of work for the Central Intelligence Agency, where it is among the top five contractors.”
Another, lesser-known contractor stands out as well: Blackbird Technologies, a secretive hi-tech military contractor with strong ties to the CIA and the infamous mercenary firm Blackwater.

Wired’s Noah Shachtman — one of the few journalists to write about the company — describes Blackbird as “Manhunt Inc” because the company’s flagship product is a sophisticated locator bug that’s used for the covert “tagging, tracking and locating” of suspected terrorists/persons of interest out in the field. These bugs don’t just track someone’s location, but surveil their cellular communication, their WiFi traffic and can apparently be used to extract intel wirelessly from devices.

Here’s Wired in 2011:

Virginia-based Blackbird Technologies, has become a leading supplier of equipment for the covert “tagging, tracking and locating” of suspected enemies. Every month, U.S. Special Operations Command spends millions of dollars on Blackbird gear. The U.S. Navy has a contract with Blackbird for $450 million worth of these so-called “TTL” devices. “Tens of thousands” of Blackbird’s devices have been sent to the field, according to a former employee. And TTL is just one part of the Herndon, Virginia firm’s multifaceted relationship with the special operations, intelligence and traditional military services.

“Blackbird has hit the trifecta: They’ve got people to sell, people to perform the job, and people to keep it all secret,” says one well-placed Defense Department contractor. “Everybody keeps their distance.”

Blackbird offers other spy gadgets, too — and not just for governments, but high net worth individuals as well. One of them is an encrypted locator/distress beacon for the 0.001%. It’s called the Panther™:

Panther permits isolated, missing, or threatened VIPs to send an encrypted distress signal and be tracked anywhere in the world. These handheld, battery-powered, personnel locating and emergency signaling units provide both cellular- and satellite-based communications paths and are designed for ease of use.

Pretty badass, right?

Much of Blackbird’s tech involves geo-tracking, which makes the company a natural partner for Google’s military-grade Google Earth software — developed as it was in close collaboration with the US military and intelligence community.

But Blackbird is very likely involved in more than just passive observation. Several former Blackbird employees told Wired’s Noah Shachtman that Blackbird routinely went “outside the wire.” Meaning the company put armed operatives into battle zones on special operations, including search and rescue missions to extract missing/captured soldiers.

A military-surveillance tech contractor putting armed operatives in the field? Hmm… that would would seem to put the company in a totally different class of contractor — somewhere closer to the likes of mercenary security firm Blackwater/Xe/Academi.

Indeed, Blackbird appears to be closely connected to Blackwater and its founder Eric Prince. In 2010, Jeremy Scahill reported in “the Nation” that Blackbird was essentially an outgrowth of Blackwater:

I have heard from sources that over the past two years, Prince has shifted some of Blackwater’s clandestine work to companies he does not own but which are run by former Blackwater executives or allies. Among these are Blackbird Technologies, which now employs former Blackwater executive J. Cofer Black…

Now serving as Blackbird’s vice president, Cofer Black is a high-level spook with a long and distinguished career.

He served six foreign tours in the CIA clandestine service, mostly in Africa and the Middle East. Cofer was CIA station chief in Sudan in the 1990s, while Osama bin Laden had his base of operations there. He was was also the head of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center in the lead-up to Sept 11 attacks. After failing to stop the attackers, he was put in charge of hunting down Al-Qaida, and then became infamous as the architect of the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program, which abducted and tortured terrorist suspects at top secret CIA run black sites.

In 2005, Cofer parlayed his three decades of CIA work into a lucrative gig with Blackwater, overseeing intel gathering for governments and private sector clients. In 2007, a year before moving from Blackwater to Blackbird, Cofer got a cushy gig providing foreign intelligence assessments on the Middle East to Mitt Romney’s failed 2008 presidential campaign.

Blackbird is an insanely secretive company — and proud of it. What we do know is that the guys behind Blackbird don’t just work to neutralize the “enemy” abroad. They have no qualms about using their military spook technology against American civvies: neutralizing the “enemy” at home on behalf of powerful corporate interests. And by enemy, I mean journalists, labor unions, political activists and whistleblowers.

In 2011, Wired reported that key Blackbird executives planned on buying a 20% stake in HBGary, a notorious private spook outfit that worked on behalf of Bank of America and the US Chamber of Commerce to spy on and sabotage anti-corporate activists:

[In 2009], the founders of Blackbird set up a separate venture capital firm, Razor’s Edge Fund. By 2010, it had attracted 26 investors and $21 million dollars. One of the planned investments: a 20 percent stake in the security firm HBGary, before the company became infamous for its proposals to smear WikiLeaks and its supporters.

HBGary did more than spy on WikiLeaks and its supporters. It was part of a group of companies — which included (Pando investor, via Founders Fund) Peter Thiel’s military intel contractor Palantir — hired by the US Chamber of Commerce to run a surveillance, sabotage and smear campaign against reporters, labor unions, environmental activists and progressive political groups. Internal emails — obtained after Anonymous hacked the HBGary’s server and released the company’s internal correspondence — revealed that HBGary was compiling and circulating detailed dossiers on its “targets,” including their photos and identities of their children and spouses.

It’s not surprising that Blackbird wanted to buy a chunk of HBGary. Until it was hacked and humiliated by Anonymous, HBGary was a promising intel company, doing work not for both private sector and military/intelligence clients. Among other things, it pitched to help build a DARPA system to detect insider threats to classified military and intelligence computer networks, allowing would-be leakers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden to be identified and caught before they even made a move. As fate would have it, Blackbird was one of the contractors who submitted a bid on this contract as well.

What does this all mean?

Google’s leadership has publicly been very critical of government surveillance in the wake of Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks. Google chairman Eric Schmidt called it “outrageous” and registered a personal complaint with President Barack Obama. The company even helped launch a Silicon Valley organization ostensibly dedicated to promoting government surveillance reform.

Of course, Google execs can gesture for the cameras all they want, and they can pretend to distance the company from the military-industrial complex. But Google’s partnerships with military contractors like SAIC, Northrop Grumman and Blackbird is just more more evidence of how snugly the company is in bed with the US military-surveillance complex.

SAIC and Northrop Grumman in particular have a long history of working with the NSA — designing, building and running the very same domestic surveillance programs that Google is supposedly against. With questionable partners like these, it’s no surprise that Google had no qualms about peddling its services to a controversial police surveillance center in Oakland explicitly designed to spy on protesters and labor activists.

Most other big tech companies — including Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Amazon — are also deeply in bed with our military-surveillance state. What makes Google stand out is the sheer amount of data and information that the company has on the American people.

It’s important that we — the millions of people who trust our data to Google every day — understand what Google is: It isn’t a traditional Internet service company. It’s not even, as mild cynics are fond of saying, an advertising company. Google is a whole new type of beast: a global for-profit surveillance company with a mission to funnel as much of our daily life in the real and online world through its servers. The purpose: to track, analyze and profile us as deeply as possible — who we are, what we do, where we go, who we talk to, what we think about — and then constantly figure out ways to monetize that intelligence.

Google is ubiquitous enough in civilian life, which makes it the last company you’d want getting in bed with corrupt private intelligence contractors and shady quasi-merc outfits like Blackbird.

We asked Google, SAIC and Blackbird for comment on this piece (~2+ hours ago) but none had replied by press time. We will update this piece if we hear back.
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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby backtoiam » Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:49 am

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(Updated) Google, the NSA & DHS are creating a global DNA database

According to the Verge, Ancestry.com, is seeking permission from the FDA to create a national DNA database. Ancestry.com claims they'll use your DNA to assess your families disease risk.

Would it shock you to know that Google, the NSA and DHS are using "front companies" to create a GLOBAL DNA database?

“On the heels of our AncestryHealth launch and our one million genotyped customers milestone for AncestryDNA, we’re excited to announce this collaboration with Calico to research and develop life changing solutions,” said Ken Chahine, Executive Vice President and Head of DNA and Health. “We have laid the groundwork for this effort through the combination of an unmatched family history database, one of the fastest growing genetic databases..."

http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2015/1 ... l-dna.html
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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby NeonLX » Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:54 am

Heh. I've avoided Ancestry.com; never had much interest.

Both my mom's and dad's families are relative newcomers to the 'states. I know essentially where they came from and that's all I care to know.

At some point, I wonder if it will become mandatory to provide a sample of your DNA? They could probably get it when you go in for any blood test or whatever.
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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby elfismiles » Thu Oct 22, 2015 11:37 am

There is evidence that TPTB have been collecting our DNA at birth for some time...

Suit possible over baby DNA sent to military lab for national database
State says blood specimens were sent for research that will help identify missing persons.
http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-pol ... 68714.html

The government has your baby’s DNA (Video)
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/04/ba ... tml?hpt=C1

DNA database plans for children who ‘could become criminals’
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml ... sbo217.xml

... and of course...

State Senate approves a bill to require DNA samples at the time of arrest
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2010 ... ill_t.html

NY law would be 1st to take DNA from all criminals
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... AD9GGDBLG0

NY law would be 1st to take DNA from all criminals
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100622/D9GGB2U00.html


NeonLX » 22 Oct 2015 14:54 wrote:Heh. I've avoided Ancestry.com; never had much interest.

Both my mom's and dad's families are relative newcomers to the 'states. I know essentially where they came from and that's all I care to know.

At some point, I wonder if it will become mandatory to provide a sample of your DNA? They could probably get it when you go in for any blood test or whatever.
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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby Twyla LaSarc » Thu Oct 22, 2015 11:47 am

IIRC Isn't ancestry.com hooked into the mormons somehow? I think that is one of the reasons I never thought of going there. Just more fodder for those creepy post mortem baptisms they do.

I am curious about my DNA, like how much of it is neanderthal :zomg, but have never trusted the companies doing it for these reasons.
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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby Twyla LaSarc » Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:46 pm

OK, earlier today, I plugged in at the local starbucks to wait for my ride home. They get their internet thru some google service. When I logged on I went to my normal haunts to find that my passwords had been wiped to all the sites that usually just log me in automatically. I decided to forgo the pleasure and played mah-jongg instead.

It seemed weird. I checked my settings, but I don't think that is it. Possible keystroke logger?
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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby 82_28 » Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:09 pm

I've done a shit ton of jobs for starbux and I suppose it is regional, but it is all Level 3 Comm that "hires" my company to do the fiber work. Google has nothing to do with connectivity, unless there is some other layer I am unaware of. PM me with the physical address of this starbux and I will look at what is what.
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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby 82_28 » Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:16 pm

Why Google Should Acquire Level 3 To Grow Fiber



GOOG is losing its edge in advertising and its other top money making businesses.

LVLT is a top communications company whose network is increasingly valuable to broadband service providers.

Given the opportunity GOOG has with Fiber, the company should consider an acquisition of LVLT.

If not, GOOG's upside is likely nonexistent.

I recently gave investors five reasons to not own Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) stock. This included a skeptical outlook on all of its established businesses and long-term concerns regarding its developmental or growth segments. That said, its one business that could be a wildcard, and lead to long-term stock gains and revenue growth is its broadband internet and TV service Fiber. If Google is to strike gold with Fiber though, it is going to need some help. Specifically, there are three reasons why it should acquire Level 3 (NYSE:LVLT).

The first two reasons are easy. First, Google's near $60 billion a year advertising business has very little upside in average revenue per user (ARPU) and second, Android is losing market share as Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhones have performed better than expected. Therefore, Google needs a legitimate growth driver, something that could become its next $50 billion business.

That could be Fiber, a service that is still very much in its infancy, being in just eight markets with an initial plan to expand into 34 total cities. What makes Fiber innovating is its download speeds of one gigabit per second, Gbps, versus the U.S. average broadband speed of 15 megabits per second, Mbps. Thus, Fiber is about 65x faster than the norm, but more importantly, Google charges customers just $70 a month for both its internet and TV services associated with Fiber. Therefore, Google charges customers what the likes of Frontier charges for inferior services. Meanwhile, companies that do offer ultra high speed broadband services, like Verizon at 300 Mbps, charge upwards of $250 per month.


http://seekingalpha.com/article/3033486 ... grow-fiber

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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby Nordic » Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:11 am

I have a feeling Google doesn't really care that much about their stock price. They have a virtual monopoly on the search engine universe and are therefore one of the most powerful companies of all time. Their power is greater than that of mere money.
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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Mon Oct 26, 2015 2:38 pm

This is not intended as a rebuke, as ever: talking about sources is for the good of The Hive. One Of Us, One Of Us, Amen.

But: anyone can write for Seeking Alpha. They even let your boy Wombat up in there, about five times now for five different clients, to brand some snake oil salesman or other as a thought leader and a market expert. The financial press has some really low standards and god-awful hucksters -- the career of Jim Cramer being all you need to study on that front -- but even by that measure, Seeking Alpha is mostly pretty abysmal stuff. Often useful as a contrarian indicator, though, much like WSJ or MSNBC.

To translate it into the ingot of conspiracy research, it's like a Rense.com that anyone can post to.

Per the OP, thought this was interesting, if opaque:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... i-machines

When Google-parent Alphabet Inc. reported eye-popping earnings last week its executives couldn’t stop talking up the company’s investments in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

For any other company that would be a wonky distraction from its core business. At Google, the two are intertwined. Artificial intelligence sits at the extreme end of machine learning, which sees people create software that can learn about the world. Google has been one of the biggest corporate sponsors of AI, and has invested heavily in it for videos, speech, translation and, recently, search.

For the past few months, a “very large fraction” of the millions of queries a second that people type into the company’s search engine have been interpreted by an artificial intelligence system, nicknamed RankBrain, said Greg Corrado, a senior research scientist with the company, outlining for the first time the emerging role of AI in search.

RankBrain uses artificial intelligence to embed vast amounts of written language into mathematical entities -- called vectors -- that the computer can understand. If RankBrain sees a word or phrase it isn’t familiar with, the machine can make a guess as to what words or phrases might have a similar meaning and filter the result accordingly, making it more effective at handling never-before-seen search queries.


Unique Questions

The system helps Mountain View, California-based Google deal with the 15 percent of queries a day it gets which its systems have never seen before, he said. For example, it’s adept at dealing with ambiguous queries, like, “What’s the title of the consumer at the highest level of a food chain?” And RankBrain’s usage of AI means it works differently than the other technologies in the search engine.

“The other signals, they’re all based on discoveries and insights that people in information retrieval have had, but there’s no learning,” Corrado said.

Keeping an edge in search is critical to Google, and making its systems smarter and better able to deal with ambiguous queries is one of the ways it can keep a grip on time-starved users, who are now mostly searching using their mobile devices. “If you say Google people think of search,” Corrado said.

Multiple Tools

RankBrain is one of the “hundreds” of signals that go into an algorithm that determines what results appear on a Google search page and where they are ranked, Corrado said. In the few months it has been deployed, RankBrain has become the third-most important signal contributing to the result of a search query, he said.

“I was surprised,” Corrado said. “I would describe this as having gone better than we would have expected.”
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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby Elvis » Mon Oct 26, 2015 6:52 pm

Google-parent Alphabet Inc.


"Alphabet" huh? I probably wasn't paying attention but I had no idea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.
Alphabet Inc. (commonly known as Alphabet) is an American multinational conglomerate created in 2015 as the parent company of Google and several other companies previously owned by or tied to Google.[1][2][3][4][5] The company is based in California and headed by Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with Page serving as CEO and Brin as President.
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Re: Google Eats the World

Postby Lord Balto » Mon Oct 26, 2015 8:01 pm

Elvis » Mon Oct 26, 2015 6:52 pm wrote:
Google-parent Alphabet Inc.


"Alphabet" huh? I probably wasn't paying attention but I had no idea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.
Alphabet Inc. (commonly known as Alphabet) is an American multinational conglomerate created in 2015 as the parent company of Google and several other companies previously owned by or tied to Google.[1][2][3][4][5] The company is based in California and headed by Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with Page serving as CEO and Brin as President.


Perhaps I should patent the alphabet before Brinsky thinks of it.
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