Honest question: what if we removed the notion of “foreign” from your question? And, what if we extended this across the board to all corporations, not just Go

Honest question: what if we removed the notion of “foreign” from your question? And, what if we extended this across the board to all corporations, not just Google? I feel uneasy when thinking about the society China is trying to build overtly, and the society that Washington is building covertly. It’s sad that 15 years after the Patriot Act, we’ve just accepted domestic surveillance as a requisite function of governance.