'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower

Re:'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistle... by rayiner on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @02:09AM (#4875307)

Google is already monitoring everything I do on the internet, why should I be more worried about the NSA doing the same?

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Re:'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistle... by Ygg2 on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @02:18AM (#4875325)

Because one of those has the ability to arrest you and the other doesn't?

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Re:'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistle... by rayiner on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @01:42PM (#4877782)

Sure, but we've got a pretty spiffy legal system that protects you from that, and in any case the NSA has no incentive to arrest me. I have no real protection from Google or its employees selling my information, using it against me, etc, and as a practical matter they have a lot more incentive to do that than the government does to arrest me.

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Re:'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistle... by alan_cx on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @08:11AM (#4876058)

You can opt out of google's monitoring. Can you opt out of the NSA's monitoring? Do they even pretend?

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Re:'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistle... by tptacek on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @05:27PM (#4878972)

You can opt out to the extent that Google allows and to the extent that Google is transparent about it.

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Re:'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistle... by chimeracoder on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @01:39PM (#4877767)

Funny - the way I look at it, the question is, why aren't people worried about Google, et. al. monitoring you the same way the NSA does?

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