Google Origins, Funding and Cyber-Tracking, Relations to Intel Agencies
March 15, 2023|
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Google Origins, Funding and Cyber-Tracking, Relations to Intel Agencies
A deep dive from 2017 by Jeff Nesbit on Quartz. The story of the deliberate creation of the modern mass-surveillance state includes elements of Google’s surprising, and largely unknown, origin. It is a somewhat different creation story than the one the public has heard, and explains what Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set out to build, and why.
But this isn’t just the origin story of Google: It’s the origin story of the mass-surveillance state, and the government money that funded it.
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