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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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