>> The court approved each of the 1,789 government requests it received in 2012, except for one that was withdrawn.
Scary as hell, considering that one request can be as broad as: “It is hereby ordered that [Verizon Business Network Services'] Custodian of Records shall produce to the National Security Agency…all call detail records or ‘telephony metadata’ created by Verizon for communications (i) between the United States and abroad; or (ii) wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls,”
Google should cut the crap with PR moves and stop hoarding so much data about everything we do online. If they have, NSA will get it--one way or another.
> Google should cut the crap with PR moves and stop hoarding so much data about everything we do online.
I like that Google has a lot of data on me---it makes their services much more valuable to me. I don't like that the government can access it secretly.
These are distinct opinions and both can be reasonably satiated simultaneously if there are proper checks and balances in government.
Scary as hell, considering that one request can be as broad as: “It is hereby ordered that [Verizon Business Network Services'] Custodian of Records shall produce to the National Security Agency…all call detail records or ‘telephony metadata’ created by Verizon for communications (i) between the United States and abroad; or (ii) wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls,”
Google should cut the crap with PR moves and stop hoarding so much data about everything we do online. If they have, NSA will get it--one way or another.