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Welcome, privacy! Gibiru tries to break Google/government alliance

Welcome, privacy! Gibiru tries to break Google/government alliance

2012-05-08
Source: RT

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If you don’t want your online activity picked apart and plucked by Internet entities and the government alike, the Web doesn’t offer all too many options. The developers at Gibiru are trying to change all of that.

While work-arounds and hacks can keep would-be spies from snooping on the Internet activity of others, novices aren’t left with many viable means of achieving anonymity on the Web. To remedy that, the Gibiru search engine exists to allow surfers to query anything — questionable or not — without risking the repercussions of having their privacy practically eliminated by Silicon Valley companies that are coming creepily close to being the Big Brother of the Web.

With the US House of Representatives recently passing the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, Congress is close to being in cahoots — officially — with the Internet’s biggest service providers. Should the legislation leave Capitol Hill and head to the White House, a veto from President Barack Obama is the only thing that will keep the federal government from going into the online activity of every American with seemingly no questions asked.

Even without CISPA being brought to Obama’s Oval Office desk just yet, Web surfers regularly submit activity logs over the Internet without even realizing it. Gibiru, however, has gone out of the way to make sure that that isn’t the case.

"Gibiru is what Google started out as over 10 years ago, the good old days," Steve Marshall, founder and CEO of Gibiru, explains in a press release.......





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