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Natalie Barnes

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  • how Google gets and handles its information is an industrial secret
  • But a great corporation, even one sworn to do no evil, makes no such bargain with the public. There is no reciprocity. Trust is not mutual. It’s understood that the public interest, if considered at all, comes second to the interests of the corporation — profit, growth, and power. So the corporation can and will keep its secrets, even though what it is dealing in is information, even when its business is making knowledge accessible, open, free — the very opposite of keeping secrets.
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    Ursula K. LeGuin is disturbed by Google's keeping secrets about information
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