an ominous comment

[Zenaan Harkness]

On 7/18/15, Lodewijk andré de la porte <l at odewijk.nl> wrote:
> 2015-07-19 2:22 GMT+09:00 Stephen D. Williams <sdw at 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