Stellar article on Google’s spying machine, by Yasha Levine:

> The fact that the biggest, most data-hungry companies in Silicon Valley joined up in a cynical effort to shift attention away from their own for-profit surveillance operations and blame it all on big bad government is to be expected. What’s surprising is just how many supposed journalists and so-called privacy advocates fell for it.

I’d urge you to read it if you use *any* Google services.