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The more important question is: What kind of political pressure is Google providing to fight against complying the PATRIOT act?

If none... how is that do no evil?




Doing everything in one's power to speak out and draw attention to these abuses is certainly a legitimate first step before giving up and running away, and Google certainly has a bunch of resources in that regard - they've a former VP (Al Gore) on their advisory board.

It seems to me that they're rather quiet on this topic.


Personally speaking, I'm not a fan of the Patriot Act. I've expressed my opinion, e.g. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-and-privacy/#comment-10... and https://profiles.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts/GXPr... before.

If you haven't seen it, we released an update to our government transparency report today: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20074661-93/google-gets-mos...

The report tells which governments send us the most requests. Personally, I'd like it if Google took a more visible stand against the Patriot Act, but the government transparency report is still a bigger step than most other major companies I can think of offhand.




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