Indeed, Google is the one who came up with the idea that surveillance-by-computer was somehow more innocuous than surveillance-by-person. With GMail they tell y

Indeed, Google is the one who came up with the idea that surveillance-by-computer was somehow more innocuous than surveillance-by-person. With GMail they tell you straight to your face that they will store all this personal data about you (i.e. your email, login history, etc.) but that it's OK, "a human never looks at it". Well, great.