[casiotone]

> To it's (partial) credit, Google is as open as it can be about governmental requests for its vast troves of information.

No credit should be given. Google and the states it works with are not adversaries.

[arctux]

To be clear, I find Facebook and Google's tracking-based advertisement business model repugnant. I was only giving credit as to the transparency report, which it publishes despite not being required to do so.

[casiotone]

Right - but it's not like Google is unwillingly complying with surveillance. They are happy to comply!