Why "without your knowledge or approval"? Pink glasses are required to use Google services? There are terms of use available, go read them. I would hope anybody who signs up for a Google account does. If you want privacy for browsing (a suspicious idea at best, when are you truly anonymous online?) , log out of your google account, turn on private browsing or do something similar. There are times when I log out of google's services and disappear into the night, as well
Ahh, I see. That makes it OK then. Right you are! And no, it's not only about Nokia employees. It's not even just about what the law says -- it's what the company DID. What they did was push through a law that violated our constitution and legalized snooping people's transmissions by all sorts of various companies/associations etc. Nokia wanted a way to catch people who leak information (understandable, sure) and the Finnish constitution happened to get in the way. The law that was passed was a violation of our constitution according to legal experts. A violation that was created due to pressure from Nokia. This is relevant since that law is quite evil, to use people's favorite term here. The whole "discussion" (using that word in a very generous way) here is about random accusations of one company being evil in manners that nobody can quite explain, yet it has to do with them collecting information and, oh yes, the year 2012. My example of your knight in shining armor raping the princess who helped raise him is very relevant, in my mind. If I'm wearing colored glasses, and I don't think I am, I'm surely not the only one. (And no, I don't think Nokia is evil. I don't believe in evil.)