Quote Originally Posted by deadlegion View Post
Google and Facebook collect a lot of data (together they collect far more than all US agencies combined) and can't be trusted to not share it with government agencies. I'm not being paranoid.
I'm a little surprised the likes of Apple is giving a helping hand though.
Look at how compliant MS & Apple have been under Operation Prism, granted it was shown that they were put under duress but those companies alone gather reams of data on people, google in particular might have an idealistic slogan but should they choose to use data nefariously they really could. I was talking to a guy who works at google and he said his job (targeted advertising and analysing text patterns of people) could be a lot easier if google didn't place so many regulations themselves.