Google has previously been caught bypassing its own browser's security settings and routinely scans all email messages through gmail.

I am just fascinated by trying to conceptualize all the hard drive space this would take up.

I heard some rumors to this effect (here in the Gulch, I think) and switched to FireFox. Stickynote over the camera - not sure what to do about the microphone. Although anyone listening would probably die of boredom.

Remember - it's not paranoia if they are really out to get you ;-)

Privacy; what a quaint, obsolete concept.

The "telescreen" has been born. No longer fiction.

Now that's scary. Not surprising, but scary. You have to know that NSA is tapped into that, whether legally or illegally.