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Sigh. Google does not have a "partnership" with the NSA. They give the NSA data when they are required to do so by law. The problem is the law, which should be

• cryptoz 13y ago
  It doesn't work that way. "The government told me to do it" is an excuse that died with the Nazis during the Nuremberg trails. As a civilization, humanity has generally agreed that doing something evil because you were told to do it by the "law" is not even close to an okay excuse.
  • edias 13y ago
    And you can't see a difference between genocide and sharing some user data? Everyday I read something along the lines of "Google has an ethical responsibility to do X" and it's getting tiresome. It's absurd to demand a company to jeopardize its entire business because you don't agree with the morality of the law in question.
  • vectorpush 13y ago
    Godwin's law fulfilled. The difference is that you voluntarily offered google your data; those who were enslaved and slaughtered like animals by proxies of the state couldn't simply subsist under the duckduckgo regime instead. If this were a matter of true evil instead of obscene hyperbole then people would actually stop using google instead of apathetically sojourning into your figurative google gas chamber.
• xuim21 13y ago
  Incorrect. The evidence shows Google provided NSA with a permanent back door into their services without the required legal authority. Might I ask if you work for Google?