You replied throwing shade on my post within minutes of me posting it, clearly indicating to me that you didn't even bother to read it, and now I'm supposed to summarize it, which in essence I have and have been doing for months every time someone calls these big tech companies 'private sector' I say "no, though they may be classified as such, their origins are to be found in the government, whether in some hybrid co-opting of an organic project, or full-blown intel agency spawn like Facebook was..." Go through my history you'll see

Here's the now deleted abstract hyperlinked from the article https://web.archive.org/web/20150124095748/https://www.utdallas.edu/~bxt043000/Motivational-Articles/Big_Data-Have_we_seen_it_before.pdf