"You should have been paying attention" can be said with respect to all such incidents. If we don't have the outcry and register our protest then you can pretty

"You should have been paying attention" can be said with respect to all such incidents. If we don't have the outcry and register our protest then you can pretty much guarantee that nothing will change. In this case, Google's scanning could be benign, but the fact that they're building large scale systems to do this is what is scary. It only takes one or two economic downturns to make a company like Google turn full-on evil; when the bean counters start ordering the engineers (if that hasn't happened already). >This is how Google makes money, and they're not very subtle about it. And us being not very subtle about our protest is how Google has reversed policies in the past.