ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: Switched
27January2011 3:42pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A consumer-advocacy group is urging Congress to investigate what it 
calls a suspiciously "cozy" relationship between Google and the Obama administration.
In a letter (PDF) sent to Representative Darrell Issa, Consumer Watchdog asked the Republican to hold a congressional investigation into contracts that governmental agencies have signed with Google, as well as the NSA's "secretive" relationship with the company. The group went on to claim that the government took "insufficient" action after Google admitted to inadvertently collecting personal data from Wi-Fi networks with its Street View cars -- an incident that Consumer Watchdog called "the largest wire tapping scandal in world history." (read full report)
