[D66] Assange: Google should be of concern to people all over the world

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«In the last 15 years Google has been growing inside the internet like a
parasite. Web browsing, social networks, maps, satellites, drones.
Google is inside your phone, on your desktop, it is invading every
aspect of people's lives: the personal relationships and the commercial
relationships. At this point Google has real power over all people who
use the Internet: basically everyone in modern life. At the same time as
Google was getting big, it was also getting bad. I show in the book how
Google is now aligned with US foreign policy. This means that Google can
intervene on behalf of US interests, for example, it can end up
compromising the privacy of billions of people, it can use its
advertising power for propaganda. Countries like Russia and China - you
can see this on our cables - already regarded Google as an arm of the
United States as far as back in 2009. Unfortunately their own [Russia
and China] solution is to create local state monopolies. Google hoovers
up the personal data of every single person: it is constructing a vast
reservoir of personal data that is extremely attractive to state power
within the United States. As a result, state power has entered into a
relationship with Google to access all the information it collects.
Google will never change its way, because its business model is to
collect as much data on as many people as possible, centralizing those
data, finding all the relationships to make a model of prediction for
advertising, almost exactly the same as the NSA does».