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This is not about what the NSA does, this is about whether Google and co are handing out foreign users' data to the NSA. It appears they are.

I hope every non-american netizen realizes that their private communications are being systematically collected by US intelligence. It is now impossible to trust an american company.

Before the Internet, the ECHELON program was shown to have been used for private industrial espionage on foreign compagnies [1]. I assume this is happening on another scale entirely now, with the cooperation of Google, Apple, FB and MSFT.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON



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