Personally I am not surprised in the sense that we could anticipate the coming occurrence of Google attempting to collect data in a reasonable manner, with the definition of reasonable tracking what people's current expectations actually are. When you say, "wherever and whenever," I would be surprised if I found out that Google had put up a bunch of thermal webcams around my house and were just looking at where I was inside of the house at all times. That would fall under the definition of, "wherever and whenever they can," but I don't believe they are doing that. However, they could be...and if an article comes out showing that they do, I will be surprised by that, yes. I was surprised to learn that Google was logging on to passwordless WiFi networks through the Streetview car. If they make a similarly high jump in their spying activity according to what people think they might be doing, I will be surprised. However if they just sort of track people's normal expectations, I won't be surprised. I think Google is still abiding by their, "don't be evil," mantra still applies, but what is considered evil by the majority of Google users changes over time. Does that make sense or no?