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Facebook, Twitter and Google are happy to grass users
BIG NAME INTERNET FIRMS including Google, Facebook and Twitter are helping law enforcement agencies carry out surveillance work, according to security experts.
In a report from Reuters, information technology bigwigs including Vint Cerf said that collaboration is a fact of internet businesses, and when the government white shirts come knocking, they have no alternative but to let them in.
This is a bit of a turnaround from when the rioting was happening in the UK and the same companies said that, although they were talking to the government, they were not actually aiding it. But these facts concern the government and its activities, so we probably should have treated them with some caution.
"When the possibility exists for information to be obtained that wasn't possible before, it's entirely understandable that law enforcement is interested," said Google's chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf. "Then the issue would be, what's the right policy? And that, or course, engenders a lot of debate."
Online privacy researcher and activist Christopher Soghoian told Reuters that responding to requests from government was such a common part of business that most businesses would have someone employed to do just that.
"Every decent-sized U.S. telecoms and Internet company has a team that does nothing but respond to requests for information," he said, adding that it was a cheap and easy business.
"Now, one police officer from the comfort of their desk can track 20, 30, 50 people all through Web interfaces provided by mobile companies and cloud computing companies. The marginal cost of surveilling one more person is now essentially approaching zero." µ
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Twitter did some efforts with avoiding giving stuff in the past though, I would not at this time put those three in the same box.
If governments required their citizens to register at a social networking site so that they could track all of their friends, family, acquaintainces, co-workers, and the individuals daily activities and movements - there would be an uprising against it. However, the majority of citizens have now freely registered at some sort of social networking site that is being used by the government to track all of their friends, family, acquaintainces, co-workers, and the individuals daily activities and movements. It is a law enforcement dream come true. With the Patriot Act, these sites are being spied upon without the users knowing they are being tracked or even the subject of an investigation. I guess the big question is when, not if, law enforcement will over-step in and make my fake facebook account with all of its bogus information in it illgal?
It is time to start the new political revolution to take back our constitutional rights back from the government that is stealing them from us.
if you havent read george owrwell's 1984 then you need to as soon as possible