[mr_overalls]

You should be worried for these reasons:

1) Google (and other SV giants) share data with the NSA.

https://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/googles_secret_nsa_alliance...

2) The NSA in turn shares information with law-enforcement agencies. ICREACH contains information on the private communications millions of American citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-made-its-own-google-to-help-shar...

3) The DEA (and possibly other agencies) uses this information to target Americans, and then lies about the origins of the information in a process called "parallel construction."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod/exclusive-u-s-dir...

It's not difficult to see the potential for abuse in a shadowy process that surveils the private communications of Americans, applies unknown selectors and data mining algorithms, and then reports the results to law enforcement.

[mar77i]

And then there's this...

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

Speaking of spooky stuff and google, this article still takes the cake.

EDIT: for completeness sake, there has been a follow up:

https://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Google-and-the-NSA-Who-s.html

[pdabbadabba]

I just spent the last few minutes skimming through that article but, if there was a bombshell (or even 'spooky') allegation in there, I didn't find it. Maybe this is more a comment on the quality of the writing than the merits, but if anyone out there could explain what is actually being claimed here, that would be really helpful.

[mar77i]

Spooky being google intertwining with the institutions that are supposed to defend your rights, and defend them from google, if necessary. But how is any govt able to do that if google is such a huge factor in making their interests heard.