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Google may not like it, but facial recognition is coming soon to Glass Nah, both Google and NSA will love it.

Congress can one thing, CUT OFF funds. So "No money should be spent to allow any agency of the United States Government to search the phone records of Americans" would work.

They aren't telling, and that may be telling on itself. Court approval apparently is needed but then Verizon hands all metadata every day, based on a court approval.

PDF link of the description http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Facts%20on%20the%20Collec...

Expected, unless the leaked doc said "ignore court order" or "kill the Presi..." leaking is illegal. The person that leaked this knew that he /she would be prosecuted, if... Let's …

True, if not for this http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/veri... The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson, compels Verizon to produce to the NSA electronic copi…

Wow! Just waiting for "directly doesn't mean direct access" excuse. He has posted the slide, and considering what happened with Verizon I am likely to believe that Google, Facebook…

To Eric Schmidt: You have ZERO credibility in this issue. and this "Collection directly from the servers of these US service providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook.."

If Google says that Takeout has all your information stored on Google, and if NSA wants everything for Person X, why isn't this ideal?

giving preferential treatment to the places frequented by our social networking friends, the places we mention in our emails, the sites we look up on the search engine. This all of…

To answer precisely: I have given more than $50 each to both ACLU and EFF in the past 10 years.

You are assuming I didn't write that $50 check.

It's a disgrace. Not to pick on any particular person, considering that Silicon Valley has dozens of billionaires and thousands of filthy rich people, but Sean Parker got lucky wit…

Google has way more data from a million little things we online than it should have. The government can easily get it, it can leak, get hacked etc. If the data isn't archived, no o…

"If they were servicing extremely-broad FISAs like Verizon's "send us all your phone metadata" then the distinction would be academic, but both Google and the NYT seem clear that G…

>> the fact that we do stand up for individual users' privacy and protection, for their right to have a personal life which is not ever shared with other people without their conse…

Verizon said what they could: we have to comply with the orders when we get them. Nothing weaselly, maybe because we read the judge's order. Why should we trust the safety of any i…

Either way, if Google has troves of info of everything you do online, NSA will get it. One way or another, front door, back door, in-direct access and what not

The Guardian suggested that more leaks are going to be published...

A few thoughts: It's unlikely that he cannot deny or admit giving data to NSA /FBI, because he both admitted and denied, albeit with weasel words. No "backdoor" and "no direct acce…