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These companies can't detain you in an airport or throw you in prison...

Neither can the NSA.

Remember this? (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-k...)

Cops searched this family's house at a private corporation's behest, more or less. The fact that a large database is privately held isn't going to protect you from the government.




Actually, that story was later proven to be false and hysterics drummed up by the woman who was searched.

Skip to the update: http://watchdog.org/98870/feds-raid-home-after-couple-search...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/01/employer-...

Her employer tipped off the FBI after seeing suspicious searches show up in their logs. Not Google.

Please check your facts and leave the tinfoil hat hysterics at the door.

I'm worried about what the NSA is doing too, but making shit up doesn't help.


Her employer tipped off the FBI after seeing suspicious searches show up in their logs. Not Google.

Yes, that's what I said in my comment, that's what it says in the link you just posted, that's what it says in the link I posted, and that is the story you are telling me now as some sort of correction.

It's not hysteria to say that they got their house searched as a result of a Google search, or as the ultimate result of the actions of a private corporation; those are facts we apparently agree on, facts that every single media report on the incident agreed on, AFAIK. Its the consensus view.


Weird, why were her husband and son using her work computer? Maybe she brought it home, and they used it, and her company monitored her in her home?


Other branches of government can, relying on NSA intelligence.

Just to be clear that example you offer is a case of an employer monitoring employee activity on company equipment, which is another can of worms: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/pressure-cooker/

Also it's not an account of action taken against consumers or users, nor is it any example of a "large database".




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