[liberationtech] Googles ties to military-intelligence industrial complex go back to 1990s,

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http://pando.com/2014/03/07/the-google-military-surveillance-complex/

Googles ties to military-intelligence industrial complex go back to
1990s, when Sergey Brin and Larry Page were still run of the mill
computer science PhD students at Stanford.

Their research into web search and indexing -- which they spun off into
a private company in 1998 -- was part of a Stanford project partially
funded by DARPA, a research and development appendage to the DoD. The
two nerdy inventors even gave the DoD's research arm a shout out in a
1998 paper that outlined Google's search and indexing methodology.

Computer science research is frequently funded with military and
defense money, of course. But Google's ties to the
military-intelligence world didn't end after they Brin and Page
privatized their research and moved their startup operation off
campus. If anything, the relationship deepened and got more intimate
after they left Stanford."


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