Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations.

[Tiberius]

Sad to say, Divi Tiberio, it is your friendly internet companies who are voluntarily cooperating there....after having been given certain assurances.

Again, you haven't kept up with the news. All 9 companies (unlike Verizon) have denied they are part of the Prism program. Edward Snowden has suggested that the NSA have infiltrated these companies and gained access to their servers illicitly via physical methods.

Now, all these 9 companies could of course be lying, but given the testimony of the whistleblower, it is quite possible that they are telling the truth and had no idea that their servers were compromised.

The time to bitch and moan about this shit was when it was enacted. By now it is a tad late.

Bullshit. No part of the law allows the government to violate the 4th amendment, which is what they are doing. Even if there was a law that allowed certain degrees of data collection, it is clear from these leaks that it has gotten out of hand. It's never too late to change the law.