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A comment on NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', Tory MP says. Parent comment

Re:NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', To... by sangnoir on Monday March 03, 2014 @11:36AM (#7334680)
I'm pretty sure "the government" in GP's context referred to the UK government, not the US.
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Re:NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', To... by anon1385 on Monday March 03, 2014 @11:49AM (#7334761)
It was the UK Government (GCHQ) that was breaking into Google's networks.
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Re:NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', To... by dhoulb on Monday March 03, 2014 @03:06PM (#7336090)
GCHQ has done some appalling stuff, but the Google network penetration was done by the NSA.
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Re:NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', To... by Shooti on Monday March 03, 2014 @04:50PM (#7336755)
You're both right, its a collaboration between the two:

>For the MUSCULAR project, the GCHQ directs all intake into a “buffer” that can hold three to five days of traffic before recycling storage space. From the buffer, custom-built NSA tools unpack and decode the special data formats that the two companies use inside their clouds. Then the data are sent through a series of filters to “select” information the NSA wants and “defeat” what it does not.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-in...

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