Archive for December, 2009

Governments store and gather a *lot* of private information about everyday citizens, in order to provide you with services such as health, transportation, safety, education, taxation, and much more. How much of this will be handed over to private IT companies such as Google in the rush to the “cloud”? What will happen to it [...]

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Recently I saw an ad which read: “Over 60% of the U.S. state governments have gone Google.” Does this mean that we’ve now handed the majority of our state governments’ operational data to a single privately-controlled company which has well-publicized partnerships with other governments such as China? To find out more, I contacted Google’s press [...]

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