> why do people support snowden's leaks but no one is leaking similar shit from google? Whistleblowers are very rare creatures to begin with. Not too many peo

> why do people support snowden's leaks but no one is leaking similar shit from google? Whistleblowers are very rare creatures to begin with. Not too many people are willing to risk the legal, financial and career ending repercussions assuming that they even have both access to the data and a means to copy it in bulk to back up their revelations. Even now, a large number of people would sadly still consider Snowden to be a traitor. I imagine Google keeps the data they collect (and more importantly what they've inferred about us using the data they collect) under tight controls to avoid that problem. With only a limited number of people able to access the trove of data at all, and those people being kept happy (or perhaps more pessimistically, kept in line by fear. I mean let's face it, Google likely has enough dirt to bury any one of us alive) it's not hard to imagine that no one has been willing or able to come forward.