Re: Google is in bed with the NSA
But any redress would require you to sue google. Then, in a class action, you can get maybe one million people in the class to get 500 Megabucks in a settlement. The lawyers take 50% of that and then you get vouchers for $250, which you may spend at the google play store.
Your data is still abused and you cannot get it back. Your data is used in aggregates, probably anonymized in a reversible way, and will never get deleted anyway. The three letter agencies from all over the world have copies of the data and you will never ever get them to admit to anything.
All in all, you are fucked over, regardless how illegal the actions have been. That is the problem with this digital data in the hands of anybody else than yourself. You can never get effective redress.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
