re: #23 Charles Johnson

Nope. The bottom line is that companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook have far more access to your personal data than the government, and much less oversight — apart from market forces that might punish them if they abuse the privilege.

Which is what both confounds and amuses me, is that these folks are up in arms about the government having a list of the numbers you dialed and the length of time you talked, but the companies they’re getting this info from are basically on the honor system not to go deeper than that. And there’s no oversight over that, no accountability, just the assumption that they wouldn’t dare go looking through our personal data.