https://consciousawarenessforall.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/google-military-industrial-complex/
Google has long played its part in proliferating the military-industrial
complex. Not only have they contributed to the surveillance state by
releasing user records to government agencies (see: PRISM), acting as a
for-profit spy agency (in violation of SEVERAL municipal, state and
federal laws), spying on you through the microphone and camera on your
Android phone or Chrome laptop and building robots for the U.S.
military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), but the
relationship between the tech giant and the U.S. government goes deeper
than most would care to know. Google has nearly 400 publicly-listed
contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
The CIA was a
strategic investor in Keyhole, Inc., whose technology is now known as
Google Maps, and is integrated into a plethora of U.S. military weapons
technology. In 2008, Google partnered with the U.S. military’s National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and GeoEye (now known as
DigitalGlobe), the U.S.’ largest commercial satellite operator
(harboring business ties with longtime U.S. defense contractors Raytheon
and Lockheed Martin).
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