> You can claim all you like that there is no coercion taking place It's not just myself claiming it, it is google claiming it under oath. If they were perjur

> You can claim all you like that there is no coercion taking place It's not just myself claiming it, it is google claiming it under oath. If they were perjuring themselves and their scanning was, in fact, coerced by the government it would not change improve the situation: In that case by scanning in response to government coercion they would be aiding an unlawful violation of their user's fourth amendments and covering it it up. If you'd like to sustain an argument that there is a large conspiracy of tech companies along with the government to violate the public's constitutional rights on a massive scale and lying in court to cover for it-- well I wouldn't be that shocked. But if that's true then it their complicity is a VASTLY greater ethical failure. I think, however, we should greatly penalize the prospects of a vast conspiracy to violate the public's constitutional rights. It would be far from a new thing for there to be large number of commercial entities violating the civil rights of the public without any government coercion to do so. > My gut feeling is that the people bemoaning this as if the end-times were here will still all (for reasonable definitions of "all") be using iCloud in a few months time, and having their photos scanned Well not me. I don't use any of those privacy invading services, and I hope you won't either! And there are plenty of data storage providers that have users data encrypted by default.