[humanspecies]

I recommend everyone have a look at the leaked documents and the extent to which all those companies participated in it and then judge their public relations reactions afterwards.

After the scandal was revealed, and only after it was revealed in an unprecedented act by Snowden, did Google come out in favor of their customers. This is ridiculous.

Google was caught pants down and there's no amount of PR bullshit they can use to white wash this and pretend the government forced them to do it. They willingly participated in exchange for political status with the government, that is the raw truth.

[pyre]

  | After the scandal was revealed, and only after it
  | was revealed in an unprecedented act by Snowden,
  | did Google come out in favor of their customers

Was Google not already in court opposing NSLs? Filing with FISA was something that the EFF recently spear-headed.

I'm not saying you should trust Google with all of your secrets, or even all of your data, but it should be an informed decision.

[humanspecies]

We have enough information for an informed decision now, thanks to Edward Snowden.

[pyre]

Right, but saying "Google only starts caring about its users now," is not true. For example, Google challenged the National Security Letters prior to the Snowden leak.

[psbp]

Can you explain what each slide of the document means and how the program was actually implemented? I still have no idea despite reading a variety of different articles.