I wonder how many are willing to trust Google’s cloud with their documents and use their online tools given all this.
In the ruling issued Friday, the [DC Circuit] court decided that the National Security Agency doesn’t need to either confirm or deny its relationship with Google in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, ruling that a FOIA exemption covers any documents whose exposure might hinder the NSA’s national security mission.
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After all, the NSA has two roles, both as the government’s top cybersecurity defenders and, more troublingly for its relationship with a Silicon Valley firm that has enormous troves of users’ personal information, as its most powerful surveillance arm.
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The ruling comes as controversy has been growing around the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a bill that passed the House last month in a form that would allow private firms like Google to share a wide range of information with government agencies like the NSA for cybersecurity reasons, as well as other vague purposes like computer “crime” and even “the protection of individuals from the danger of death or serious bodily harm.”Google, unlike practically every other major tech firm, has yet to take a stance on that bill or the similar cybersecurity legislation now being considered in the Senate.
The FAA has approved drones for cities and states to use. The Obama Admin has intervened in Sheriff Arpaio in Arizona, Arizona’s law on police checking for illegal immigrants, voter ID laws in several states, and a city in New Jersey for using written tests for firefighters and cops. If they wanted to stop the drones, they would be gone.
The FAA has approved drones for cities and states to use.
The Obama Admin has intervened in Sheriff Arpaio in Arizona, Arizona’s law on police checking for illegal immigrants
Leave it to the states if they want to use them. A good FAA decision.
Yes, intervene in Arizona Sheriff Arshole because immigration laws are enforced by the Federal Gov. If you want our nations laws to be broken, you need to be arrested as a terrorist.
No worries, Dream Act and amnesty are on the agenda for the second term.
And if not on the second, it’ll be for the third. Really!
True. According to his Life of Julia website, he anticipates being in office for at least 64 years. Now perhaps he is including all the presidencies into whose biographies he has inserted himself on the White House website, which takes you back to Calvin Coolidge.
Good if your team does it, bad if the other does it. As someone else said somewhere else, you are a waste of space & air. I think you are the stereotype that those who advocate population reduction to save the planet have in their minds
NSA aside.
What business would allow another business to have posssion of their documents and internal memos?
Yet this is exactly what many businesses do, when it comes to Google.
Who remembers T.I.A ??? “Total Informational Awareness” – as described by Adm. Poindexter at the begining of the Bush Adminstration ? It quickly slipped under the radar, gone but not forgotten !!! NSA “data mining” the entire Internet 24/7/365 with the BIGGEST SUPER COMPUTER FARM ANYWHERE !!! Talk about NO PLACE TO HIDE !!! (Except perhaps a cave in Afghanistan !!!)
Just can’t trust Google or probably Facebook either. I just uninstalled Google Chrome on all my PC’s. Tired of Google’s name coming up all the time in questions of privacy. Something must be true about it. People are asking for it when they use cloud storage of any kind. You have no ideal whay is happening to your data.
I fail to understand why cloud storage would be preferable, in any case, to local storage.
Why would any business, or person, for that matter, decide that storing data out there in a cloud is somehow better than storing data on a secure flash drive or external drive?
Data is no more secure or less subject to loss in the cloud.
When it is sensitive proprietary data, I would never think of trusting cloud storage.
To justify their IT position and pocket the difference on hardware? I don’t know.
It gets better. A secret law now allows anybody to say anything they want, leagally. Good for the gander.