{"id":20165,"date":"2016-04-22T19:21:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T00:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20165"},"modified":"2016-04-22T19:21:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T00:21:08","slug":"the-android-administration-googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20165","title":{"rendered":"The Android Administration: Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illustration by The Intercept. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

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Google\u2019s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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W<\/span>HEN PRESIDENT OBAMA\u00a0announced his support last week for a Federal Communications Commission plan to open the market for cable set-top boxes \u2014 a big win for consumers, but also\u00a0for Google<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the cable and telecommunications giants who used to have a near-stranglehold on tech policy were furious. AT&T chief lobbyist Jim Cicconi\u00a0lashed out<\/a>\u00a0at what he called White House intervention on behalf of \u201cthe Google proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s hardly the first to suggest\u00a0that the Obama administration has become too close to the Silicon Valley juggernaut.<\/p>\n

Over the past seven years, Google has created a remarkable partnership with the Obama White House, providing expertise, services, advice, and personnel for vital government projects.<\/p>\n

Precisely how much influence this buys Google isn\u2019t always clear. But consider that\u00a0over in the\u00a0European Union, Google is now facing\u00a0two major antitrust charges<\/a>\u00a0for abusing its dominance in\u00a0mobile operating systems and\u00a0search. By contrast, in the U.S., a strong case to sanction Google was quashed by a presidentially appointed commission.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a relationship that bears watching.\u00a0\u201cAmericans know surprisingly little about what Google wants and gets from our government,\u201d said Anne Weismann, executive director of\u00a0Campaign for Accountability<\/a>, a nonprofit watchdog organization. Seeking to change that, Weismann\u2019s group is spearheading\u00a0a data transparency\u00a0project\u00a0about Google\u2019s interactions\u00a0in Washington.<\/p>\n

The Intercept<\/em>\u00a0teamed up with Campaign for Accountability to present two revealing data sets from that forthcoming project: one on the number of White House meetings attended by Google representatives, and the second on the revolving door between Google and the government.<\/p>\n

As the interactive charts accompanying this article show, Google representatives attended White House meetings more than once a week, on average, from the beginning of Obama\u2019s presidency through October 2015. Nearly 250 people have shuttled from government service to Google employment or vice versa over the course of his\u00a0administration.<\/p>\n

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Illustration by The Intercept. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand\/AFP\/Getty Images THE ANDROID ADMINISTRATION Google\u2019s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA\u00a0announced his support last week for a Federal Communications Commission plan to open the market for cable set-top boxes \u2014 a big win for consumers, but also\u00a0for Google\u00a0\u2014 the cable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13603,13604,378,2847,5567,877],"class_list":["post-20165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-david-dayen","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-google","tag-obama-administration","tag-the-intercept","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20166,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20165\/revisions\/20166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}