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One Response to “Google Before You Tweet . . .”

1. Mark E Hoffer Says:
   April 18th, 2010 at 3:49 pm

   “…Indeed, Google now controls an estimated 70 percent of the online search engine market, but its deep-drilling of user information — where we surf, whom we e-mail, what blogs we post, what pictures we share, what maps we look at, what news we read — extends far beyond the search feature to encompass the kind of “total information awareness” that privacy activists feared at the hands of the Bush Jr. administration’s much-maligned Total Information Awareness program.

   Kevin Bankston, a privacy expert and attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation…: “In all of human history,” he says, “few if any single entities, other than the National Security Agency, have ever possessed such a hoard of sensitive data about so many people.” This is the sort of thing that should make the intelligence agencies, says Bankston, “drool with anticipation.”…”
   http://femalefaust.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-better-have-really-good-excuse.html
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   “Library of Congress Now Has All Tweets Ever Tweeted”

   For all to search. For all to mine. For all to see. For all time.

   Twitter Donates Entire Tweet Archive…
   http://femalefaust.blogspot.com/2010/04/library-of-congress-now-has-all-tweets.html
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   past that, Who said “Print was Dead” (?)