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Google’s Evil Empire; Without Journalism Uncovering Abuses of Power, No Democracy
Sunday, November 16, 2014 18:10
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More Cracks in Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra as Data Collection, Political Power Soar. “Mission Creep-y: Google Is Quietly Becoming One of the Nation’s Most Powerful Political Forces While Expanding Its Information-Collection Empire” (pdf) looks at the ways Google is accumulating political power—through high-powered lobbying and sizable campaign donations—as well as massive amounts of personal information that make the company a “treasure trove for agencies like the NSA.”
If Journalists Ever Stop Uncovering Abuses of Power, We Will Lose Our Democracy. In Pay Any Price, James Risen uncovers fraud and malfeasance of massive financial proportions during the war in Iraq – and the cancerous spread of the surveillance-industrial state.
