Sunday, February 5, 2012

Report: "Internet companies increasingly co-opted for surveillance"

By Xeni Jardin at 3:35 pm Friday, Sep 30

Reuters reports from the Internet Governance Forum in Nairobi: "Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week. Although such companies try to keep their users' information private, their business models depend on exploiting it to sell targeted advertising, and when governments demand they hand it over, they have little choice but to comply."

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