US Government Orders Google and Apple to Hand Over Names of 10,000 American Users of Gun Scope App

US Government Orders Google and Apple to Hand Over Names of 10,000 American Users of Gun Scope App

What if the US Government created corporations, and oursourced their 4th Amendments to those corporations? 

Would that be ok?

What if the US Government didn't create those corporations, but still used them to do their dirty work; their 4th Amendment violations?

Is that ok?

It's not.

OH, AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance

Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google’s ambitious creation was funded and coordinated by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online. 

The intelligence community hoped that the nation’s leading computer scientists could take non-classified information and user data, combine it with what would become known as the internet, and begin to create for-profit, commercial enterprises to suit the needs of both the intelligence community and the public. They hoped to direct the supercomputing revolution from the start in order to make sense of what millions of human beings did inside this digital information network. 

That collaboration has made a comprehensive public-private mass surveillance state possible today.