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This 50 minutes documentary gives an in-depth look in the world of Google and Search.

What if all the world’s information would be available and easy to find? What if all the news, all books, all texts, photographs and videos would be collected in one place, and made available, always and everywhere?

This is the goal of Google, and the company seems to be realising its core mission at an amazing speed: through its popular search engine, through Google Earth, with which users can find any kind of information based on geography, and through Google Print, a project in which Google digitizes complete libraries.

Google is divulging ever more information, in the process hiring the smartest people in the industry. But is the company aware of the responsibility it has, being the guard to all the world’s information, including personal information about its users?

This documentary takes a look into the world of Google, in the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California and in its London offices. We see –among others- Vint Cerf, named ‘the father’ of the Internet who explains the inner workings of Google as a company. Since 2004, Cerf has been working for Google, helping them to develop new applications for the Internet. What is his view on the development of the Internet, and on the role Google plays in today’s world?

With its motto ‘Don’t be evil’, Google seems to have the best intentions. But there are also claims that Google is slowly turning into Big Brother, keeping track of its users and continuously making decisions about the information it provides to an ever faster growing number of users.

Will Google turn out to be a new Library of Alexandria, serving as a middleman that brings all useful Information to anyone? Or is it turning into a monopolistic Big Brother that challenges the freedom of information?

Research: Martijn Kieft
Director: IJsbrand van Veelen

VPRO Backlight 2006

Duration : 0:47:7

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Technorati Tags: big, brother, cerf, digitize, google, Information, internet, monopoly, Privacy, Search, silicon, valley

IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND the difference between the short and long forms watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFvS5m4_OtA
“The Census Part 2, Clarifications”

Many people have requested the list below:

QUESTIONS THAT THE CENSUS BUREAU REFUSED OR FAILED TO ANSWER (from Jerry Day’s Matrix News Network segment: “The Census Is Getting Personal”):

1) The Constitution authorizes government to count people but it does not authorize the taking of private information or even the names of individuals. From where does the Census Bureau derive authority to demand our private information?

2) Is there any limit to the amount and type of private information that the Census bureau may demand and collect?

3) Under what Constitutional authority does the Census Bureau collect Information now from 250,000 people per month of every year?

4) The 4th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits government Search and seizure of private information without a court warrant based on probable cause, Current Census policies violate that Amendment do they not?

5) By what Constitutional authority does the Census Bureau threaten penalties for failure to provide personal information?

6) The Census Bureau claims it maintains privacy of personal information, Are there any circumstances under which law enforcement or spy agencies can access Census information?

7) Since presumably Census data may be subpoenaed by law enforcement, may individuals refuse to answer questions according to the fifth Amendment?

Why has the Census Bureau decided to collect GPS coordinates for every home?

9) Virtually every government database has been either lost, hacked or compromised, would the Census Bureau’s claim of data security not be an outright lie or at best highly improbable?

10) How would the Census Bureau locate, protect and compensate those individuals whose data becomes compromised?

There is a great deal of confusion about the Census “short form” and “Long Form” because the Census Bureau has failed to equally publicize the two current approaches. Part of the video refers to the long form called the “American Community Survey” which has 12 pages of questions, many of which are much more probing than the short form. A PDF file of the the long form can be viewed at this link: http://www.jerryday.com/images/ACS-1-Stateside-English_web.pdf

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Did Census Workers respect your wishes and requests for privacy or not? Post your review in the comments here. Let us know the city or region of the census activity you saw. This page has no affiliation with the Census Bureau or any government agency.

Please have regard for the safety and rights of Census Workers.

Duration : 0:5:19

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Technorati Tags: 2010 census, census, census form, census taker, constitution, freedom, jerryday, matrix news network, Privacy, rights

In the first in a series of short, informative videos on privacy, Google talks about what Information we collect when you use our Search engine and the steps we’ve taken to protect it. In future videos, we’ll talk about why Google keeps logs, what information we record when you’re signed into a Google account and steps you can take to increase your privacy when surfing online. Much of this information is already available at our online Privacy Center at http://www.google.com/privacy.html

Duration : 0:4:28

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Technorati Tags: google, Privacy, Search