Google makes intelligence work much harder

Sir David Pepper - former director of GCHQ, the royal agency for electronic communication has claimed that because of the Google the work of the intelligence had become much harder. 

He called this “the Google effect”, because as he stated the existence of popular search engine had simplyfied the research of information in the web. So much information being available in the web had  raised the “threshold for producing intelligence” for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. 

“Intelligence producers have had to become very sensitive to this phenomenon and very careful not to put effort into producing intelligence that purports to be secret which is in fact not secret at all.” - he said during the Annual Lecture in the Institution of Engineering and Technology. 

After “the Google effect” hi-rank officials who use the intelligence started to excpect the information much faster than before. “If the intelligence readers are used to getting information online very fast they’re going to expect the intelligence agencies to be able to do much the same thing,” he added. 

Source: The Telegraph