Jigsaw (company)

Jigsaw (company)
Surname	Jigsaw
Company type	Think tank
Former name	Google Ideas (2010-2015)
Founded	2010
founder	Eric Schmidt
Company headquarters	New York City , United States
main character	Jared Cohen (boss)
Company belongs to	Google (2010–2015) , Alphabet Inc. (2015 – present)
Website	https://jigsaw.google.com/

Jigsaw , formerly Google Ideas is a technology incubator that of Google was created and is now a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc . is working. The company is headquartered in New York City . Jigsaw is dedicated to understanding global challenges and the applications of technological solutions for the fight against extremism, online censorship and cyber-attacks up to the protection of access to information. Jared Cohen, earlier in the Policy Planning Committee in the US State Department operates, is the founder and president of Jigsaw and was formerly the founder and director of Google Ideas.

history

Google Ideas

In 2010, Eric Schmidt approached Jared Cohen to set up Google Ideas as a "think / do tank" company and to research questions at the interface between technology and geopolitics. He worked on projects designed to protect activists and independent media from cyber attacks. Google Ideas also aims to end censorship within a decade.

Led by Jared Cohen and a Google team of engineers, researchers, product managers, and policy experts, ideas were developed to resolve such difficulties. The team also hosted a number of conferences, the most recent being the Conflict in a Connected World Roundtable Series , in partnership with the Council of Foreign Relations Center of Preventative Action . Its links with the State Department and its "regime change" activities were investigated.

Jigsaw

In February 2016, Eric Schmidt announced the expansion of Google Ideas into a technology incubator called Jigsaw . Schmidt explained the name as follows: "[the name] reflects our conviction that collaborative problem solving delivers the best solutions". The team's mission is "to use technology to tackle the toughest geopolitical challenges (...) to break online censorship to reduce the threats associated with digital attacks". Furthermore, from now on, Jigsaw should use more resources and construction techniques from Alphabet to build more sophisticated products.

Projects

"Shield" project

Project Shield is a free anti- DDOS service offered by Jigsaw for websites that have "media, election and human rights related content". The aim of the project is primarily to protect smaller and newer websites that are susceptible to DDOS attacks. This is a similar service to that offered by companies like Cloudflare . Google originally announced the Shield project at their ideas conference on October 21, 2013. The service was initially only offered to trustworthy testers; however, on February 25, 2016, Google opened the service for every qualifying website. The service works by using websites through Google IPs. The traffic is routed through Google's own reverse proxy , which identifies and filters harmful traffic.

Project Shield offers news, human rights and election surveillance sites protection against DDoS cyber attacks through a system of caching (saving the data from the protected website to reduce the load on the website). It also filters traffic to prevent DDoS attacks. Project Shield is built on Google Cloud Platform. It is made available free of charge to qualified websites of independent journalists, human rights activists and electoral researchers.

Most notably, Project Shield rescued Brian Krebs' security blog from an unprecedented DDoS attack that would have hit the site completely offline.

uProxy

uProxy is an extension for various web browsers (e.g. Chrome and Firefox ) with which users can access the Internet via a web proxy. The extension works by allowing the user to share their internet connection with someone else. The extension is intended to give users, often in repressive societies, more secure access to the Internet without being monitored. Jigsaw funded this development, which was carried out by the University of Washington and Brave New Software (the organization that created the anti-censorship tool Lantern). It has been used in over a hundred countries and is so-called free / libre software under Apache License 2.0 .

Conversation AI

Conversation AI is software "designed [] by Jigsaw to use machine learning and to automatically detect the language of abuse and harassment". On this project, the company had worked closely with the New York Times and Wikipedia as both were the first platforms to use the harassment detector on their talk / comment pages to secure millions of comments and help train the machine learning software.

other projects

Other Jigsaw projects are for example Password Alert, Unfiltered.news, Digital Attack Map and Montage (graduated to Storyful). Password Alert protects against phishing attacks. Unfiltered.news uses the Google News data to show users which news and topics are popular by users around the world. The "Digital Attack Map" shows the top digital attacks in the world in real time. Montage is a program that "allows war correspondents and nonprofits to multiply their analysis as YouTube videos to track conflicts and gather evidence of human rights abuses."

Web links

official website

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b GOOGLE IDEAS BECOMES JIGSAW. In: Jigsaw. February 16, 2016, accessed March 10, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b Google Ideas Think Tank To Become Tech Incubator Called Jigsaw | Fast Company | The future of business . In: Fast Company . February 16, 2016 ( fastcompany.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).
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^ Conflict in a Connected World Roundtable Series - Council on Foreign Relations . In: Council on Foreign Relations . ( cfr.org [accessed March 10, 2017]).
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^ StratforLeaks: Google Ideas Director Involved in 'Regime Change' . In: Al Akhbar English . ( al-akhbar.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).
↑ Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems . In: Newsweek . October 23, 2014 ( newsweek.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).
^ Inside Alphabet's Jigsaw, the powerful tech incubator that could reshape geopolitics . In: Quartz . November 29, 2016 ( qz.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).
↑ Google launches new anti-DDoS service called 'Project Shield'. October 21, 2013, accessed March 10, 2017 .
^ Andy Greenberg: Google Wants to Save News Sites From Cyberattacks — For Free . In: WIRED . ( wired.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).
↑ Google opens DDoS-thwarting Project Shield service to all news and human rights websites. Retrieved March 10, 2017 .
↑ Google's Project Shield helps any news site beat DDoS attacks. Retrieved March 10, 2017 .
^ How Project Shield works - Project Shield Help. Retrieved March 10, 2017 (English).
↑ General FAQs - Project Shield Help. Retrieved March 10, 2017 (English).
↑ FAQs for news publishers - Project Shield Help. Retrieved March 10, 2017 (English).
^ Google Just Rescued This Blogger From a Hacking Attack. Retrieved March 10, 2017 .
↑ Sam Gustin: Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries . In: Time . ISSN 0040-781X ( time.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).
↑ Why The Remarkably Similar Circumvention Tools uProxy and Lantern Are Not Overkill. Retrieved March 10, 2017 .
↑ Password Alert: Google's new free tool to prevent phishing attacks. Retrieved March 10, 2017 .
↑ A new data viz tool shows what stories are being undercovered in countries around the world . In: Nieman Lab . ( niemanlab.org [accessed March 10, 2017]).

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[:1-2] Google Ideas Think Tank To Become Tech Incubator Called Jigsaw | Fast Company | The future of business . In: Fast Company . February 16, 2016 ( fastcompany.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).

[:2-3] Google Ideas to become Jigsaw tech incubator . In: USA TODAY . ( usatoday.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).

[4] Hope King: Google launches Jigsaw to 'tackle the toughest geopolitical challenges'. February 17, 2016, accessed March 10, 2017 .

[:3-5] Andy Greenberg: Inside Google's Internet Justice League and Its AI-Powered War on Trolls . In: WIRED . ( wired.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).

[6] David McCabe: Google spins off, rebrands think tank . In: TheHill . February 17, 2016 ( thehill.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).

[7] Conflict in a Connected World Roundtable Series - Council on Foreign Relations . In: Council on Foreign Relations . ( cfr.org [accessed March 10, 2017]).

[8] Shawn Donnan: Google Ideas . In: Slate . July 9, 2011, ISSN 1091-2339, ( slate.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).

[9] StratforLeaks: Google Ideas Director Involved in 'Regime Change' . In: Al Akhbar English . ( al-akhbar.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).

[10] Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems . In: Newsweek . October 23, 2014 ( newsweek.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).

[11] Inside Alphabet's Jigsaw, the powerful tech incubator that could reshape geopolitics . In: Quartz . November 29, 2016 ( qz.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).

[12] Google launches new anti-DDoS service called 'Project Shield'. October 21, 2013, accessed March 10, 2017 .

[13] Andy Greenberg: Google Wants to Save News Sites From Cyberattacks — For Free . In: WIRED . ( wired.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).

[14] Google opens DDoS-thwarting Project Shield service to all news and human rights websites. Retrieved March 10, 2017 .

[15] Google's Project Shield helps any news site beat DDoS attacks. Retrieved March 10, 2017 .

[16] How Project Shield works - Project Shield Help. Retrieved March 10, 2017 (English).

[17] General FAQs - Project Shield Help. Retrieved March 10, 2017 (English).

[18] FAQs for news publishers - Project Shield Help. Retrieved March 10, 2017 (English).

[19] Google Just Rescued This Blogger From a Hacking Attack. Retrieved March 10, 2017 .

[20] Sam Gustin: Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries . In: Time . ISSN 0040-781X ( time.com [accessed March 10, 2017]).

[21] Why The Remarkably Similar Circumvention Tools uProxy and Lantern Are Not Overkill. Retrieved March 10, 2017 .

[22] Password Alert: Google's new free tool to prevent phishing attacks. Retrieved March 10, 2017 .

[23] A new data viz tool shows what stories are being undercovered in countries around the world . In: Nieman Lab . ( niemanlab.org [accessed March 10, 2017]).