{"id":752,"date":"2012-05-30T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=752"},"modified":"2012-05-30T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:41:50","slug":"this-week-in-the-papers-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"This week in the papers 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEK IN THE PAPERS 7<\/p>\n

Do you know anything about Marius Milner? What about Luc Delany? You probably don\u2019t know a thing about them \u2013 but there is a good chance they know something about you. Delany used to be Google\u2019s European policy associate and Milner is a software designer from Hove in East Sussex. Still in the dark? Well, Milner has patented inventions for Google and one of these was the \u2018Street View\u2019 programme for Google designed to gather information via cars fitted with cameras and antennae.<\/p>\n

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The programme \u2013 used from 2008 to 2010, was designed to compile photographic evidence of almost every street and home. No big deal with that, I hear you say. One problem though \u2013 the software could also intercept communications, including e-mails, chat messages and photographs – something Delany stated hadn\u2019t happened<\/strong>. It did happen though and Milner had informed his bosses and colleagues that this software could be used for this purpose and recommended that Google consulted with a \u2018privacy lawyer\u2019. America\u2019s Federal Communications Commission possess detailed documents showing that the software was designed with this very purpose in mind. Milner has pleaded the 5th<\/sup>. Amendment and\u00a0 pressure is mounting worldwide for action to be taking against the corporation. Next time you use Google Maps or any of their other programmes \u2013 be aware that you are being watched!!<\/p>\n

Google aren\u2019t the only ones watching and listening. The recent arrests of some of Colin Duffy\u2019s relatives – they are a very unlucky family – highlighted one avenue the PSNI use to gather information. They \u2013 the PSNI, admitted they had recorded the suspect\u2019s conversations. And it was highlighted at the trial of John Paul Wooton that security forces had placed a tracking device in his car. Big Brother is alive and well.<\/p>\n

An interesting book is being released this Friday. It\u2019s called \u2018Triggs\u2019 and details the relationship between Roy Keane and his, now deceased,Labradordog. The book is written from the dog\u2019s point of view and tells how theLabradortried to talk Keane out of going to the World Cup in 2002 \u2013 I\u2019m not making this up! It was a very stressful time for the dog. Triggs heard about Keane\u2019s retirement formIreland\u2019s squad whilst he was staying at a boarding kennel inManchester\u2013 the stress was too much and he had to be taken to the vet.<\/p>\n

I see the McCord\/McDowell double act showed its face again this week. The two of them are getting a good wage out of hounding Loyalist paramilitaries \u2013 McDowell is good at raking up the past \u2013 I was going to ask him to investigate the story of the 2 wrestlers who were giving a bad beating with a shovel by an old \u2018Pass-man\u2019 and his brother \u2013 he\u2019s probably too busy<\/strong> to investigate that \u2013 I wonder why!<\/p>\n

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