The NSA paid Google to build search technology for intelligence use

Evidence

By late summer 2003, Google was awarded a $2.07 million contract to outfit the agency with Google search technology. According to documents obtained by Consumer Watchdog under the Freedom of Information Act, the NSA paid Google for a “search appliance capable of searching 15 million documents in twenty-four languages.” Google extended its services for another year at no cost in April 2004. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 375

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader TIA-to-Silicon-Valley outsourcing narrative in the same chapter; this is concrete evidence of the NSA-Google contract. — connects to: The intelligence community and Google developed an elective affinity over information dominance. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 369