Privacy and the Web
Google announced today they are now sharing your data and information with the National Security Agency (NSA) as reported on MSNBC:
“Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google — and its users — from future attack. Google and the NSA declined to comment on the partnership.”
If Google’s aim is to defend you from attack, why won’t it comment on the partnership with the NSA? One of the arguments web users employ to rationalize big businesses like Google keeping copies of all their web data and transactions is that there are so many billions and billions of pieces of information who could make sense of what one individual person was [...]