Google’s ‘Nest’ Spy Grid to be in your living room
Source: 21stcenturywire.com
21st Century Wire says…
On Monday, Internet giant Google announced it will be purchasing Nest Labs, a company that specializes in smart grid programmable devices that are self-learning and Wi-Fi enabled.
The Bay Area startup has developed spy-linked thermostats and smoke alarms for your home, that are primed for outside corporate control and surveillance…
IMAGE: (A smart grid smoke detector developed by Nest Labs)
In December, Google, Facebook and Twitter issued an open letter to President Obama calling for the “urgent need to reform government surveillance practices worldwide.” This was prompted by Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, who in November, stated that the NSA’s digital siphoning of Google’s data centers was “outrageous.”
Schmidt is on the board of directors of the New American Foundation, who just yesterday issued a reported that the NSA has had virtually “ no impact” in preventing terrorism since expanding its spy-system.
Is Google using the current crisis of confidence in the NSA to position itself for a bigger piece of the action?
When adding up the details of this story with the narrative of Google condemning the NSA, there seems to be a conflict of interest between their business practices and the reforms that they have called for on worldwide monitoring.
Is this a case of industry insiders looking to direct the future of the NSA by helping to expand its operations privately, while in public appearing to be against it?
In 2009, it was Schmidt who pompously declared, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
Last year Google acquired Boston Dynamics, the robotics company funded by DARPA.
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Read the full article at: 21stcenturywire.com
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