<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The CFA is also not as transparent as it urges everyone else to be, it has refused to say who funds it in the past, has no details of who funds it on its website, either - though Oracle confirmed at one point it was one of its funders.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13 Jul 2017, at 20:08, Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="mailto:jmalcolm@eff.org" class="">jmalcolm@eff.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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But here's an article putting the other side of the story:<br class="">
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Cry-Foul-at-Their/240635">http://www.chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Cry-Foul-at-Their/240635</a><br class="">
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We place Google Policy Fellows at EFF, too. Does that mean that
whatever work they do for the rest of their careers is tainted by
the few thousand they received to support their living expenses as
an EFF fellow?<br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/7/17 3:21 am, parminder wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Google has spent
millions funding academic research in the US and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class="u-underline" style="touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(0, 86, 137);
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public opinion and policymakers, a watchdog has claimed.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Over the last
decade, Google has funded research papers that appear to
support the technology company’s business interests and
defend against regulatory challenges such as antitrust and
anti-piracy, the US-based Campaign for Accountability (CfA)
said<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://campaignforaccountability.org/new-report-reveals-googles-extensive-financial-support-for-academia/" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(0, 86, 137);
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Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;
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normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px;
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rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“Google uses its immense wealth and
power to attempt to influence policymakers at every
level,” said Daniel Stevens, CfA executive director. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text
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</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text
Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;
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normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px;
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display: inline !important; float: none; background-color:
rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Academics were directly funded by
Google in more than half of the cases and in the rest of
the cases funded indirectly by groups or institutions
supported by Google, the CfA said. Authors, who were paid
between $5,000 and $400,000 (£3,900-£310,000) by Google,
did not disclose the source of their funding in 66% of all
cases, and in 26% of those cases directly funded by
Google, according to the report.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text
Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;
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normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px;
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian
Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;
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float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“Whenever
Google’s bad behaviour is exposed, it invariably points the
finger at someone else,” said Stevens. “Instead of
deflecting blame, Google should address its record of
academic astroturfing, which puts it in the same league as
big oil and </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/tobacco-a-deadly-business" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(0, 86, 137);
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none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255,
255);" moz-do-not-send="true">big tobacco</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text
Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;
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normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans:
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$ 2.7 billion for anti-competitive practices by the EU
regulator, which only means that in all countries that are too
weak to take on google (or benefit from its profits, meaning
the US) Google remains in violation of competition (and many
other) laws..... All this Google funded research and advocacy,
of dont regulate the Internet (read, Internet companies), are
playing a dangerous game, seriously compromising public
interest. <br class="">
</font></p><p class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">It is time we declare the honeymoon of
civil society and academic love for digital global
corporations over. They are today like big oil companies -- no
doubt the latter provide what is still the main energy
resource that keeps our societies ticking but in the bargain
they very often, and systemically, indulge in stuff that needs
academics and NGOs to be watching against. It is pretty
difficult to undertake such watching while taking considerable
money from them. It is a simple truism, but the digital sector
tends to ignore it.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">parminder <br class="">
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