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What US company doesn't cooperate with the NSA? Google responds to lawful requests by the US government as appropriate. It's up to US citizens to change the law if they don't like it.

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Wait, how are we supposed to change laws we don't know about?

We know about the laws that allowed this.

If Google really wants to help then it should stop tracking their users, stop spying on me and stop trying to force me to sing up to G+, they cannot give data to the NSA if they stop getting it as simple as that, but, all the NSA has to do is buy the information from Google, after all, they sell it.

If you don't want to be tracked and you don't want to use Google+, stop using Google products.

Google does not sell data to anybody. They sell advertising slots.

Is not as easy to scape, they keep tracking you with cookies, with Google analitics and with whatever they can use it, they have all figured out.

You're still tracked if you don't use Google products.

Their business - like that of most tech companies - is built on data (so is every business to some degree) they can't forgo data, that is stupid. If the NSA is your main concern then it's government policy you want to be changed, not the engineering decisions of private companies. Also worth mentioning that unless you're speaking of telecom companies there is no profit motive to cooperating with government but mainly legal obligations.

Their business is data, buy they have gone beyond that, they just don't want to know what I'd like to buy, they want to know were I live, my phone number, the places I visit, they want to know where I'm every single second of the day, screw that.

They're not forcing you. You can give them that or you might consider the benefits not worth it and you won't, it's not an NSA type issue.

They are not forcing me yet they are still tracking me, with dirty tricks like this one:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-bowdon/why-has-google-been...

yeah, the are clever when is about getting your info.

Employees at Google are not tracking you.

Programmatic algorithms on some Google properties are processing your data to show you the most relevant content (search, G+ posts, mail, news etc) and advertisements. There is a big difference between this "tracking" and the kind of snooping that spy organizations do.

By the way I'll be surprised if all spy organizations and not just NSA aren't trying their best to get more information on certain people from wherever they can.

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