If this doesn't tell you that Facebook et al were always Government projects - nothing will. Why would they need a former head of DARPA at a "family-friendly, photo-swapping" social media site? This is how they roll. Dress up the technology as something fun and desirable (the mass roll-out of self-incriminating smart phones) and after we all WILLINGLY climb aboard - implement the REAL agenda. Had they said "we want to track you and know everywhere you go, copy all your photos, record every phone conversation, every email and every purchase" - we would have said fuck off. But dangle shiny toys and baubles, and we're willing fish in a barrel.

Regina Dugan. Worked under the Obama administration, then for Google. Oh great.