Sock puppets and people with blinders on are becoming tiresome.
Hey, remember this?
> Should be titled the Banality of Google Strawmen for the often repeated conspiracy theories of Google working with the NSA.
> There's simply no way Googlers would tolerate something like secretly sending user data to the NSA, it would be too hard to prevent internal employees from revolting.
> As an employee, I'd rather Google lose money and stock price and have the government shut them down, than send a firehose feed to the NSA.
Try again. There is still zero evidence Google did anything other than comply with requests for individually reviewed pieces of data, and did not engineer anything to permit firehose dragnets.
If the NSA is getting any kind of dragnet data, most likely it is via external network taps, intercepting non-encrypted SMTP traffic, or non-encrypted intra-datacenter fiber traffic the same way they tapped 'dark fiber' undersea cables of the Soviet Union during Venona.
Google cares very much for user privacy, it is part of the corporate culture.
Hey, remember this?
> Should be titled the Banality of Google Strawmen for the often repeated conspiracy theories of Google working with the NSA.
> There's simply no way Googlers would tolerate something like secretly sending user data to the NSA, it would be too hard to prevent internal employees from revolting.
> As an employee, I'd rather Google lose money and stock price and have the government shut them down, than send a firehose feed to the NSA.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5807106
Well, did you lose your Google job yet?