patrick.net

Don't you ever wonder why a VPN costs, like $1.50 a month? How do they make money doing that?

They don't. It's to monitor you, but they're not going to do anything and demonstrate that's what they are doing

Hey, I know Adam Taggart back from when patrick.net was mostly about the housing market.

October 21, 2022
Texas sues Google over its use of facial images
New lawsuit filed.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging the tech giant has unlawfully collected facial biometrics without the consent of users for years. ...

The complaint alleges that Google uses features in Google Assistant, Photos, and Nest smart-home products to collect and store voice- and facial-recognition data without the consent of users.

Google then uses the data for commercial purposes, like improving its AI algorithms.

Under the Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act in the Texas constitution, it is illegal to collect and share biometric data without consent.

“Google has now spent years unlawfully capturing the faces and voices of both non-consenting users and non-users throughout Texas—including our children and grandparents, who simply have no idea that their biometric information is being mined for profit by a global corporation,” the complaint states.

Ezra Levant 🍁🚛
@ezralevant
2h
Google says they give you “safe” news. Safe for whom? Trudeau? Big Pharma? Big tech?

And safe from whom? Skeptical voices? The opposition?

Imagine a reporter saying he only wrote “safe” stories. That’s not a reporter. That’s a propagandist for the establishment.

That’s Google.

Google CAUGHT Manipulating Search, Buries GOP Campaign Sites in 83% of Top Senate Races
Gabriela Pariseau
October 25th, 2022 9:08 AM

What judge? What mandate? What decision? Google wants us NOT TO KNOW that New York's "vaccine" mandate has gone down in flames
They will do ANYTHING to black out ALL the truth about the "vaccination" drive: not only the horrendous harm it's doing, but all the pushback that it's caused—and that WILL finally set us free

Mark Crispin Miller
3 hr ago
Here’s what a Google search on all the pertinent terms brought up yesterday, one day after the decision. (My thanks to Eric Francis Coppolino for the screen shot.)

Be Safe
We strive to make the Chrome Web Store a safe and trusted environment for developers and users.

This means that we will remove extensions that pose security threats, access data beyond what is necessary to implement their functions, appear to take advantage of users, encourage harm or hate speech, or otherwise abuse the Store system and network.

...

Be Useful
Extensions in the Store must provide experiences that are educational, informative, entertaining, inclusive, and that result in a positive user experience.

We will remove extensions that appear to provide little to no utility to users, or do not provide the reasonably expected functionality. Chrome will also strive to provide useful tools to developers to help encourage innovation.

For months, many on both sides predicted that Republicans would sweep into strong majorities in both chambers of Congress in response to President Joe Biden’s unpopular handling of numerous issues; instead, the GOP barely won a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and failed to wrest the Senate from Democrat control.

Epstein, a prominent tech researcher, wrote Tuesday in The Epoch Times that “almost no one is looking in the right place” for the correct explanation, and that Big Tech is in fact expanding the reach of “rumors and conspiracy theories” about it to divert attention from itself.

“Over a period of months, Google nudged undecided voters toward voting blue by showing people politically biased content in their search engine, suppressing content they didn’t want people to see, recommending left-leaning videos on YouTube (pdf) (which Google owns), allegedly sending tens of millions of emails to people’s spam boxes, and sending go-vote reminders on their home page mainly to liberal and moderate voters,” Epstein said. “These manipulations (and others) don’t affect voters with strong points of view, but they can have an enormous impact on voters who are undecided (pdf) — the people who decide the outcomes of close elections.”

Epstein’s team determined Google’s activities by monitoring the content seen by a panel of 2,742 politically diverse voters predominantly in swing states, primarily “ephemeral experiences” (EEs)— content such as text reminders that nudges people in a particular direction but does not linger to be reviewed after the fact and is not seen by anyone not targeted with it.

In 2019, Senior Google engineer Zachary Vorhies made headlines after he leaked 950 pages of internal documents that provide evidence of the company's use of blacklisting, censorship, and machine learning algorithms.

From Vorhies’ perspective, when Google launched a crusade against so-called “fake news,” what it meant, in actuality, was censoring the ideas and arguments of former President Donald Trump and his nationalist-populist supporters.

Vorhies searched for “fake news” in the company’s internal database — and the documents that showed up showed a clear pattern — anything that was “pro-Trump” and anything that was “anti-Hillary” was being labeled as “fake news.”

According to Vorhies, the documents show that Google has been using blacklists and machine learning algorithms to flag certain websites and content as "inappropriate" or "low-quality," causing them to be removed entirely or pushed down in the search rankings.

Vorhies released one Android news blacklist that flagged hundreds of conservative websites to be censored.

For example, Daily Caller, Western Journal, RedState, Gateway Pundit, Steven Crowder, Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh, among other conservative websites, were censored.



... The leaked documents have sparked widespread concern and outrage, with many people accusing Google of using its immense power and influence to manipulate public opinion and shape the political landscape. ...

This is why I was incredibly disappointed to learn that Twitter has blocked users from sharing links to my Substack, where I have primarily written about big government, big pharma, and big tech corruption.

Rossman has since taken his account private, but the screenshots are all 100% real. This is a former deep state CIA analyst and he's a Senior Manager of "TRUST & SAFETY" at Google. And he's an anti-white, anti-Trump, "I'm with her," anti-conservative bigot.

He's in charge of deciding what is and isn't hate speech and deciding what you see when you search Google.

And you think he's fair and balanced?

There's more...

Nick (Name Redacted)
@NameRedacted247
·
Dec 26, 2022
1. Google currently employs at least 165 people, in high-ranking positions, from the Intelligence Community.

Google’s Trust & Safety team is managed by 3 ex-CIA agents, who control “misinfo & hate speech.”

Here’s the breakdown:
CIA-27
FBI-52
NSA-30
DHS-50
ODNI-6

YouTube Shadow-Banning Videos that don't conform to 'The Narrative' | Exhibit A - "Black American Patriots react: NFL announces 'Black National Anthem'"
Kari Lake got static for not standing during the pregame performance of "The Black National Anthem" during last Sunday's Super Bowl. The whole point of a national anthem is it's the NATION'S ANTHEM

Google, he continued, had intentionally over-hired engineers and tech talent to stop them from moving to other companies,

Google engineer jumps to death in NYC, second worker suicide in months

https://nypost.com/2023/05/05/google-senior-software-engineer-31-jumps-to-death-from-nyc-headquarters/

Google engineer jumps to death in NYC, second worker suicide in months

CALLER:
Is this Pizza Hut?

GOOGLE:
No sir, it's Google Pizza.

CALLER:
I must have dialed a wrong number, sorry.

GOOGLE:
No sir, Google bought Pizza Hut last month.

CALLER:
OK. I would like to order a pizza.

GOOGLE:
Do you want your usual, sir?

CALLER:
My usual? You know me?

GOOGLE:
According to our caller ID data sheet, the last 12 times you called you ordered an extra-large pizza with three cheeses, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms and meatballs on a thick crust.

CALLER:
Super! That’s what I’ll have.

GOOGLE:
May I suggest that this time you order a pizza with ricotta, arugula, sun-dried tomatoes and olives on a whole wheat gluten-free thin crust?

CALLER:
What? I don’t want a vegetarian pizza!

GOOGLE:
Your cholesterol is not good, sir.

CALLER:
How the hell do you know that?

GOOGLE:
Well, we cross-referenced your home phone number with your medical records. We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.

CALLER:
Okay, but I do not want your rotten vegetarian pizza! I already take medication for my cholesterol.

GOOGLE:
Excuse me sir, but you have not taken your medication regularly. According to our database, you purchased only a box of 30 cholesterol tablets once at Lloyds Pharmacy, 4 months ago.

CALLER:
I bought more from another Pharmacy.

GOOGLE:
That doesn’t show on your credit card statement.

CALLER:
I paid in cash.

GOOGLE:
But you did not withdraw enough cash according to your bank statement.

CALLER:
I have other sources of cash.

GOOGLE:
That doesn’t show on your latest tax returns, unless you bought them using an undeclared income source, which is against the law!

CALLER:
WHAT THE HELL!

GOOGLE:
I'm sorry sir, we use such information only with the sole intention of helping you.

CALLER:
Enough already! I'm sick to death of Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and all the others. I'm going to an island without the internet, TV, where there is no phone service and no one to watch me or spy on me.

GOOGLE:
I understand sir, but you need to renew your passport first. It expired 6 weeks ago...

Welcome to the future

https://nypost.com/2023/05/05/google-senior-software-engineer-31-jumps-to-death-from-nyc-headquarters/

Google engineer jumps to death in NYC, second worker suicide in months