Tech Giants: We didn’t know
Breitbart Big Government - Wynton Hall – 6/7/2013
On Thursday, Americans learned that
since 2007 the National Security Agency (NSA) has operated a top-secret program
called PRISM that vacuums up the actual contents--not just so-called metadata,
as with the National Security Agency’s phone record collections--of emails,
video and voice chat, photos, Skype calls, web chats, videos, file transfers,
and social networking communications.
PRISM circumnavigates the
need for court orders and allows the NSA to directly tap and mine data from America
“They quite literally can
watch your ideas form as you type,” one career intelligence officer told the
Washington Post.
PRISM began under President
George W. Bush but according to the Post, under President Obama PRISM has
enjoyed “exponential growth."
In 2012, Google executive
chairman Eric Schmidt recruited,
coached, and strategized technology for the Obama campaign. Businessweek says
Schmidt is now “investing millions to fund a consulting firm for businesses
staffed by Obama’s former data analytics team.”
Indeed, this week the White
House held another of its “We
the Geeks” White House Google+ Hangouts series to “highlight the
future of science, technology, and innovation here in the United States
Microsoft and Google bag
millions selling their products and contracting their services to the
government. Consider, for example, just one government agency like the
Department of Interior. In May 2012, Google scored a $35
million contract for the agency’s “Google Apps for Government”
program. In 2010, Microsoft was awarded a $59.3
million contract to run Interior’s email and collaboration systems.
Obama and Big Data have
aligned to strike crony deals that grow government and profits.
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