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A Polite Message From the Surveillance State

Metro Silicon Valley | January 31, 2008

Say what you want about Google being an evil corporate overlord that steals all your private data, turns it into info-mulch and then injects it into the technoslaves to keep them drugged up and helpless. There are still some good things about the company despite all that.

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Tags: computers & technology

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