That's largely irrelevant to my point. The average person doesn't think google is going to use their information against them, which is why they allow google to engage in such invasive tracking (also, they don't realize how much google tracks). At the same time, the average person doesn't share HN's reflexive distrust of the government. Desensitized to privacy issues by google, etc's, tracking, it doesn't cause them any consternation that the government has access to that information too. They don't perceive either entity as a threat.