"Do no evil" ended up giving Google the power to do _more_ evil than it otherwise might've managed.
That's why Google and Facebook are extremely dangerous, they hold unto every piece of info to try to squeeze a few more pennies from each user. Nice and ready for NSA to get it legally: “There is no indication that this order to Verizon was unique or novel. It is very likely that business records orders like this exist for every major American telecommunication company, meaning that, if you make calls in the United States, the NSA has those records. And this has been going on for at least 7 years, and probably longer,” http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/verizon-responds/
It's like when people pointed out the financial ties between certain politicians and companies that produced expensive airport body scanners, which the government promptly purchased after the t`ism scare tactics had cast a spell over people making them accept that anything and everything was "necessary".
Think about how much cash has been funneled to the sorts of folks like those at HBGary. I wouldn't mind paying for my own oppression as much if the oppressors were at least competent.
Nobody at the NSA would make any decision that would financially benefit them?
I really can't read that statement without being cynical. I will just leave it there..
Boy, I wish it were that simple.
