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Why would the US ever breakup Google? This company is key to the American surveillance of the rest of the world.

• nabla9 7y ago
  The theory given in the article seems plausible to me.
• myko 7y ago
  The NSA could just as easily (probably more easily) hack smaller companies. It isn't as if Google is giving the US government access to user data (except when legally obligated through warrants) - the Prism program was essentially spying on these companies without their knowledge.
  • chvid 7y ago
    NSA does not hack Google; it gets direct access through a series of secret laws and courts. American citizens may have some protection against surveillance but the rest of the world does not.
    • myko 7y ago
      <citation needed>
      • chvid 7y ago
        google prism
        • myko 7y ago
          Yeah, I have. That's what I was referring to. They didn't give the NSA a firehose. Check out Yonatan Zunger's comments from the time this came out: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/12/heres-everything-we-know-about-prism-to-date/?utm_term=.0444e63cf675 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/12/heres... You're acting like Google was complicit with the NSA capturing data without a specific target - they weren't.
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