Mr. Google Woos State Governments
December 26, 2009
If you have been watching the Google waltz with the Obama administration, you have missed the action in the cloak room. Mr. Google has been quite successful out of the public eye. Mr. Google has been making new friends and I for one have not noticed. I found “Our Google Government” interesting indeed. The main point of the article is that 60 percent of US state governments have fallen in love with Google. Of course there are degrees of love. Some states love Mr; Google quite a bit. Others are simply in lust with Google. What’s remarkable is this comment:
In other words, according to Google, United States state governments have literally handed over our public data to be held and managed by a private company which has well-publicized partnerships with other governments such as China. The data is physically stored in Google’s buildings, on Google’s servers, managed by Google’s employees. This means Google now controls our government’s access to its own data.
I don’t know if this statement is spot on. The article includes a list of states that have gone Google.
Alaska
Connecticut
Washington, DC
Illinois
Iowa
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Michigan
Montana
North Dakota
Nebraska
New Hampshire
Ohio
Oklahoma
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Utah
Wisconsin
Strong stuff. And there’s more in the source document.
Stephen E. Arnold, December 26, 2009
What a conundrum? This is a freebie, and it is about the US government. I have to disclose that I am working for zip to a Federal watchdog. To which cracker jack agency? Oh, I remember—the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission. IBM, Oracle, and Unisys contacts may be flying from states after Googzilla arrives.
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