The robot defense: how Google saw privacy before Snowden

Chris Hoofnagle quoted on PBS Frontline, May 20, 2014

“Gmail was a privacy disaster,” Chris Hoofnagle, director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, told Frontline. “The moment you allow people to look at the content of your communication for some advertising purpose is the moment that the government is going to come along and say, ‘If you’re going to let them listen in for advertising, why don’t you let us listen in for anti-terrorism or for serious crimes?’”