Outspoken cybersecurity entrepreneur John McAfee, the founder of the anti-virus software that still bears his surname, believes that multinational technology giant Google has become "so large and so powerful" that its alleged greed now "threatens to destroy us all”…

"I love Google from one standpoint," he said. "It has opened up the world to information beyond comprehension and has enriched our lives – but Google has taken the mantle of corporate conscience and sacrificed it on the altar of Mammon for money...

"We are not numbers, I am not a statistic, I am not a collection of attitudes and desires. I am a human being with my own dreams and hopes and problems. By making me a number you have removed my human dignity. ...If you believe that Google is not harmful then you must believe that the total loss of our privacy and human dignity is not harmful."

On Twitter, where the web pioneer boasts a following of more than 63,000 people, he later claimed his "Google challenge" was mysteriously deleted from his social media profiles.

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More information was revealed today about how the National Security Agency (NSA) obtained information about U.S. private citizens. According to The Washington Post, leaked court documents show that the NSA paid tech companies like Google and Facebook millions of dollars to participate in their PRISM surveillance program…
Many of the NSA’s surveillance tactics were found to be unconstitutional by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The companies who were involved included Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Facebook, all of which received payment for their cooperation with surveillance requests…
When news first broke that the NSA stored tens of thousands of emails a year unlawfully, people were outraged. Understandably so. Questions as to whether or not this incentivizes the distribution of private information arose. Still, one thing we haven’t seen mentioned yet is how low the price tag was on private citizen info…

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