Here, let me fix that for you

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, ruling that Google's policies do not explicitly say that the company intercepts users' email to deliver targeted advertising:
"Google has cited no case that stands for the proposition that users who send emails impliedly consent to interceptions and use of their communications by third parties other than the intended recipient of the email."

Angry US citizen, ruling that Google's policies do not explicitly say that the company intercepts users' email to feed it to the NSA:
"Google has cited no case that stands for the proposition that users who send emails impliedly consent to interceptions and use of their communications by third parties other than the intended recipient of the email."

Oh, wait, that's what Judge Koh already said.

Boy you people are demanding

In re yesterday's post:
Two pictures of Holly

The power of analogies

Yochai Benkler, writing in the Guardian, noted that the US is suffering from an auto-immune disorder. That thing created to defend the body (politic) from external threats has begun attacking the body itself.

John Kelsey, a cryptographer with NIST, compared the news that the NSA had deliberately compromised encryption standards to hearing that the government replaced all of a vaccine with salt water because some nasty jihadis get vaccinated.

The last time I tried to talk about this I think people didn't understand my view of how serious the situation is. In the intervening two months every piece of news that has come out has shown that things were even worse than we thought. Perhaps some analogies will help?