We need Big Tech to protect us from Big Brother | Jeff Jarvis | Comment is free | theguardian.com.

Yonathan Zunger, the chief architect of Google+, said this after the Guardian's and Glenn Greenwald's first revelations were published: I can tell you that it is a point of pride, both for the company and for many of us, personally, that we stand up to governments that demand people's information … I can categorically state that nothing resembling the mass vigilância of individuals by governments within our systems has ever crossed my plate. If it had, even if I couldn't talk about it, in all likelihood I would no longer be working at Google.