Don’t Listen to Google and Facebook: The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership Is Still Going Strong

[Commentary] It may seem like the public/private surveillance partnership has frayed -- but, unfortunately, it is alive and well. The main focus of massive Internet companies and government agencies both still largely align: to keep us all under constant surveillance. When they bicker, it’s mostly role-playing designed to keep us blasé about what's really going on. These companies are certainly pissed that the publicity surrounding the NSA's actions is undermining their users' trust in their services, and they're losing money because of it. These companies are doing their best to convince users that their data is secure. But they're relying on their users not understanding what real security looks like.