On 7/18/15, Lodewijk andré de la porte <l@odewijk.nl> wrote:
2015-07-19 2:22 GMT+09:00 Stephen D. Williams <sdw@lig.net>:
I feel perfectly confident that Google is going to protect their billions in income and valuation by being very careful with avoiding abusing their data or users in any strong sense.
I want to say "You're new here, aren't you?", but I know you're not. Parallel construction and intelligence laundering take care of this in case they want to abuse your data. Big Data is never very much of a privacy issue, but when they silently use that Big Data for their (or their companies') profit, well, without competition you'll lose. And then there's straight business-secret-stealing, which they also do, and which is very hard to ever find out about (parallel construction is also possible here).
So, yeah, they'll protect their billions in income and valuation. And they'll use all the intelligence the US can bring
Oh how I wish that were true.
to the table to do it.
Timeless as ever - Party in the CIA (Wierd al Yankovic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-CG5w4YwOI