(iverson's) currentbuzz: Podzinger Uses Defense Technology--but who paid for the technology?

Monday, March 12, 2007

Podzinger Uses Defense Technology--but who paid for the technology?

Here is an exclusive from AlwaysOn by Andy Plesser. I am very unclear why a defense contractor that got paid out of our tax money to develop a "national security technology application, developed to fight terrorism" gets to now use this technology to catalog all the videos on youtube.

Andy Plesser did not ask or at least write about who paid for the tool and who is benefitting. Nor did he ask about who else besides beet.tv is getting access to what is found in the transcripts of tapes. Does the govt. get a copy of videos with certain words in it?

AlwaysOn is a business oriented publication, but this story ought to have some light shed on it by people interested in civil liberties and some like me that are simply interested in how our tax money is spent.