[SomeStupidPoint]

So Google deployed malware against... tens of millions of people?... in order to steal confidential data for profit, by bypassing security mechanisms on those devices as they interacted with Google servers, exceeding authorized access, and using installed code to track the activities of people against their efforts to raise technical barriers?

That sounds like an international criminal act on a scale most malware authors would wet themselves over.

It's also not surprising that the public is getting fed up with the wanton criminality that seems to be embodied by modern capitalism.

[pmlnr]

I don't know why this is getting downvoted. They did, in fact, acted against someone's setting not to do this, and I completely agree, this is a criminal act, not just a technical glitch.

[JorgeGT]

IMHO storing cookies in a machine explicitly configured to block them seems to fit the "exceeds authorized access" language of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

[briandear]

..as opposed to the lily-white lack of criminality of communism or socialism? Criminality occurs everywhere within every system, the only difference is who is committing it and the degree of which it it reported.