Your Data

I remember when google.com launched. I ran a business and was on the road during the day. Listening to NPR I remember the intellectual elites all babbling at the mouth about this great new search engine. I tried it. It was good. I did not become a "google clone" however but stuck with my current variety of web search / email services.

I remember about a year or so later when all those intellectual elites learned that google had kept all of their search records tucked away and was using that data for whatever purposes they felt necessary. They were up in arms. Lawsuits, congressional inquiries, you name it. How stupid the intellectual elites really are.

Now of course we know that google uses EVERY bit, byte, stream of data, conversation, global document that is publicly available to run it's business and record, disseminate, parse and use to its financial advantage. That is what a business does. How else could they be the largest search engine and not charge it's users for the privilege?

But what many don't know is how the "security apparatus" here in America is increasingly looking to the googles and facebooks out there to operate their increasingly police state tactics. This article is interesting, not because of the fact that any idiot knows any decent investigative officer or federal investigative agency would use the resources of these monster networks, but that they are increasingly requesting that these network owners do exactly opposite what the intellectual elites have requested: They want the owners to capture MORE information from their users and keep that information LONGER and allow more access to that data from the security apparatus, not only in the US but in other nations as well.

Here is the article: http://on.msnbc.com/rgEeMi

Enjoy.

PS; this site is owned by google as is youtube and many other sites you may not realize... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google