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Originally Posted by John Scott

My father was a computer engineer with Honeywell, and the military used Honeywell mainframes. I would think if Matt was a computer guy (information retrieval) he would need clearance to do his job, just like my father.

Just a guess.

So in case of Google, it could be that 'the US military' is using their main frame too, right?

..or the NSA maybe?

All very normal of course, to give the US military access to the personal data of millions of people all over the world.

...and all very normal for private multinational companies to exchange data with US military.