Not the OP, but stuff like this showed up all over the Intenet just after news of the Snowden leak (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;6&#x2F;6&#x2F;4403868&#x2F;nsa-fbi-mine-data-apple-google-facebook-microsoft-others-prism" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;6&#x2F;6&#x2F;4403868&#x2F;nsa-fbi-mine-data-a...</a>):<p>&gt; The US National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have been harvesting data such as audio, video, photographs, emails, and documents from the internal servers of nine major technology companies, according to a leaked 41-slide security presentation obtained by The Washington Post and The Guardian.<p>Google is in that list. Granted, this did not demonstrate <i>full access</i> to all of Google&#x27;s internal communications, but the category of &quot;audio, video, photographs, emails, and documents&quot; is broad and damaging enough that it doesn&#x27;t really matter if NSA had full access or not.<p>And yes, I know that Google and all the other major companies vigorously denied any back doors, but as people were saying at the time on this very forum they didn&#x27;t have any other realistic or legal choices. The President of the United States himself was saying things like: &quot;You can&#x27;t have 100% security, and also then have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience&quot;, which, if you were a smart enough CEO, was a very good hint about what to do and say in the heat of the moment.