Google Military-Controlled Satellite: ‘We Don’t Feel Lucky’

Google Military-Controlled Satellite Reaches Orbit, We Don’t Feel Lucky
According to the company, the GeoEye-1 satellite is the highest resolution commercial satellite orbiting the planet right now. It reached orbit yesterday, but in reality, it’s not an ordinary commercial satellite: it’s fully controlled by the Department of Defense’s U.S.

What scares me about Google, is that one day there will be a changing of the guard. Serge, Page and the mighty geeks who are humbly inheriting the Google Earth will move on to retirement or different projects. They will be replaced with power hungry Steve Balmer types and former Telecom execs with no souls or desire to NOT “do no evil”.

What will happen to all that data we entrust to them? Our emails, our files, our search results. I really like Google now, but one day it will be run a different way.

I just hope that Google doesn’t go the way of Harland “Colonel” Sanders: “Sanders sold the Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation in 1964, although he remained its corporate spokesman until his death. In 1973 he sued Heublein Inc. (the KFC parent company at the time) over alleged misuse of his image in promoting products he had not helped develop. In 1975 Heublein Inc. unsuccessfully sued Sanders for libel after he publicly referred to their gravy as “sludge” with a “wallpaper taste”.”

- That company took over and the Colonel’s recipe, was NEVER the same again. I hope that whoever inherits Google has the same mindset. Some people don’t like the way Google is handling private data, but it could be a lot worse. They could behave like your local ISP: selling your data to the highest bidder unless you opt out be mail every other month, and allowing the federal government to violate the constitution (FISA).

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