I find the whole thing totally ridiculous - I really dont care if the govt want to snoop on the bad guys.
I find the power of google et al a lot more worrying. Google is snooping and logging everything you do in display more ads and sell you more useless shit. Apple are turning into the thought police with their neo-con attitudes to naked women.
These corps are now so powerful that they can operate with a global footprint, domiciled nowhere, paying virtually zero corp tax, unregulated, more powerful than any government.
At this moment these digital mega corps make the CIA look like amateurs, they make fools of our tax authorities, and they hold more data about your lives than you could ever imagine.
Our governments can be changed if we don't like their policies, but who is governing Google ?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...d-eric-schmidt
The arrogance is breath taking.
Some of you might remember the EU fining Microsoft several billions when it added Explorer to Windows. Govt's decided that they (microsoft) were abusing their monopoly position to stifle competition. Back then they seemed to care when a company wielded too much power. However now they have lost their teeth.
