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Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals

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Re: Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals

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>"the only way in which Google reveals information about users are when we receive lawful, specific orders about individuals -- things like search warrants."

Things like search warrants? What has been described in the PRISM slides is an interface in which a NSA agent can access a subject's data at will, in a few clicks and an affirmation that "yes, this person is a terrorist".

Also the US government has confirmed that systematic collection of user data was indeed happening for non-US citizens. What of that? Are they users of lesser rights in the eyes of Google, etc?

Re: Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals

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Since the Chief Architect is so supportive of privacy rights - I'd like to participate in G+ using a pseudonym. How about it Google??

Something like this? https://plus.google.com/+BradleyHorowitz/posts/SM5RjubbMmV

Re: Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals

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Since the Chief Architect is so supportive of privacy rights - I'd like to participate in G+ using a pseudonym. How about it Google??

He is responding in the thread, so you could actually ask there, and maybe hear an answer, as opposed to merely being snarky here.

Unless, of course, you are someone who actually needs a pseudonym even to ask such a question, in which case such a forum is not for you...

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