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Amazon Received $600 Million CIA Computer Cloud Contract: Surveillance Shopping?

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You can now add � ??spymaster� ? � to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos� ??s various titles.On June 14, a US GAO report elaborated on previous reports that Amazon had won a $600 million contract to build a � ??private cloud� ? � for the CIA. (The GAO report was generated when IBM, which had been competing for the contract, protested that it had lost unfairly.)Just look at the two key players in spying on democracy in Boghosian's book title: government surveillance and corporate power. In Bezos's purchase of the Washington Post,you have the critical mass combination.And that's not to mention the potential for combining intelligence surveillance, customer buying habits and marketing information, and news preferences.Those who argue that Bezos is socially progressive on issues such as gay marriage and therefore will be a positive influence on the Post forget that President Obama is socially progressive, but

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)

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