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.
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See Also:
#GoogleGestapo @ Phi Beta Iota
