[beernutz]

While I agree with most of your post, I feel I MUST point out some problems with some of the analogies you are using.

1) The analogy between hacking your phone and reading messages is really NOT the same as Facebook storing data that you supplied to their system.

2) Google did nothing that should be considered illegal regardless of what European courts decided. The data they collected was on OPEN WIFI routers. This is the same as being accused of breaking the law because you listen while having a conversation in a crowded room. Open wifi comes with the implicit idea, that the owner of the router is actively allowing others to use the router.

[jritch]

Point taken. They are still collected data they had no right collecting.....also the people who they collected data on were not informed until the german government investigated the matter (which is a breach of the law)