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title: "Google, not GCHQ, is the truly chilling spy network"
date: 2017-06-19T12:56:00+06:00
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> Daily surveillance of the general public conducted by the search engine, along with Facebook, is far more insidious than anything our spooks get up to.
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> “Surveillance”, as the [security expert Bruce Schneier has observed](https://www.schneier.com/news/archives/2014/04/surveillance_is_the.html), is the business model of the internet and that is true of both the public and private sectors.

-- [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/18/google-not-gchq--truly-chilling-spy-network) - June 18, 2017