>Riiight. So the NSA is helping Google for the good of the world? Lets think of a hypothetical scenario. Google and NSA decides to collaborate, but they keep

>Riiight. So the NSA is helping Google for the good of the world? Lets think of a hypothetical scenario. Google and NSA decides to collaborate, but they keep this collaboration under the wraps and go through great lengths to make sure that no one finds out about this collaboration. Their reason for keeping it secret is to avoid reaction like yours. Yet the information of their collaboration becomes public. Would your views about this collaboration be any different from what it is now? My point being, its a no win situation. Any NSA collaboration in to _anything_ or with _anyone_ will be looked in to with extreme cynicism and perhaps, to a certain extend, rightly so. It is under NSA's jurisdiction to investigate this matter since national cyber security is at stake and it is also in Google's interest to collaborate since they were one of the several victims. NSA is not helping for the good of the world. NSA is helping for the benefit of USA cyber security (which is also a national security matter). Google is under no legal obligation to share proprietary code or information regarding user searches and e-mail accounts.