Spying and storing: Assange says "Google works like NSA"

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Spying-and-storing-Assang-by-Julian-Assange-Assange_Britain_Google_Spying-140919-657.html

Spying and storing: Assange says "Google works like NSA"
By Julian Assange
OpEdNews Op Eds 9/19/2014 at 00:40:11

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange equated Google with the National Security Agency and GCHQ, saying the tech giant has become "a privatized version of the NSA," as it collects, stores, and indexes people's data. He made his remarks to BBC and Sky News.

"Google's business model is the spy. It makes more than 80 percent of its money by collecting information about people, pooling it together, storing it, indexing it, building profiles of people to predict their interests and behavior, and then selling those profiles principally to advertisers, but also others," Assange told BBC.

"So the result is that Google, in terms of how it works, its actual practice, is almost identical to the National Security Agency or GCHQ," the whistleblower argued.

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"They are formally listed as part of the defense industrial base since 2009. They have been engaged with the Prism system, where nearly all information collected by Google is available to the NSA," Assange said. "At the institutional level, Google is deeply involved in US foreign policy."

[newfie11]

1. So who to use that doesn't spy?? Nt

[Shivering Jemmy]

2. Would love to work for Google.

[SamKnause]

3. Thank you Julian Assange.

Thank you WikiLeaks.

Thank you Chelsea Manning.

Thank you Edward Snowden.

Thank you Daniel Ellsberg.

Thank you Gary Webb. (deceased)

Thank you Anonymous.

Thank you to all the brave leakers and whistleblowers the world over !!!! (Too numerous to mention individually)