> "The funny thing about all this is that (perhaps this case aside) Google is getting a lot of bad PR because they actually tell people what they do." Not quit

> "The funny thing about all this is that (perhaps this case aside) Google is getting a lot of bad PR because they actually tell people what they do." Not quite, Google isn't being as honest as you're suggesting. They tried to spin the blame off onto a rogue engineer. From the article: "Google has portrayed it as the mistakes of an unauthorized engineer operating on his own and stressed that the data was never used in any Google product." Although you're right that privacy invasions occur across the entire industry, I think that's even more reason to send the message that privacy is a real concern.