To the contrary, they have utter regard for your privacy. They advocate for governments to have more respect for your privacy, as well.
Alfred knows everything about Bruce Wayne. Google is Alfred, except he doesn't even take a salary - he wants to show you advertising that you would think is high quality, and he promises to never sell your personal information to the advertisers. Pretty damned good deal, if you ask me.
Oh yeah, then why didn't they shut-down Gmail like the folks at Lavabit did? Instead of doing the right thing, Google let themselves become compromised in secret - only for us to find out after someone was willing to put their life on the line to leak this information.
I will never be able to convince you that Google was not complicit in the acts the government took that Edward Snowden has exposed, and you will never convince me they were complicit.
There is literally no evidence anyone could provide you, that would make you change your opinion.
And I can't claim that I'm much different, if I'm honest, unless Google execs admit to it. Or unless journalists discover examples of prosecutors admitting evidence in some court, to convict someone, based on data that could only have been acquired with Google being complicit.
You seem to forget that Google pulled out of China, rather than comply. How much money did they leave on the table, there?
You're exaggerating your claims and expectations to an extreme degree. For one, Snowden put his life on the line to leak a hell of a lot more than email spygate. Secondly, why didn't Google shut down Gmail? Is that a serious question? Because it quite obviously would've done far more harm than good, to citizens of the world and to Google.
You should calm down a bit and try to adopt more reasonable stances if you actually hope to make a difference.
> Oh yeah, then why didn't they shut-down Gmail like the folks at Lavabit did?
As to that specific question, I bet it's because Google's Privacy Policy says:
> We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:
> meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.
Lavabit's policy[1] said:
> [...] we will not surrender any private information without a court order; [...].
... so I guess they kind of indicated that they could be convinced to share private information, although they didn't do it in the form of a positive assertion like Google.
To the contrary, they have utter regard for your privacy. They advocate for governments to have more respect for your privacy, as well.
Alfred knows everything about Bruce Wayne. Google is Alfred, except he doesn't even take a salary - he wants to show you advertising that you would think is high quality, and he promises to never sell your personal information to the advertisers. Pretty damned good deal, if you ask me.