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Exactly.A fundamental difference between a private corporation and the government is that if a private corporation wrongs you, you can sue them and tell other people about it. They'll have to deal with the resulting PR shitstorm. If the government serves a warrant to Verizon, they're prohibited from telling anyone about it.
As for PRISM: wasn't this in place at the time of the Boston marathon bombing? Didn't that guy post on Twitter and Facebook?
Maybe there's just a huge success rate of prevented attacks that lead to criminal cases with gag orders, so nobody ever heard about them... secret evidence leading to secret trials and secret prisons. And that's why giving information to private companies is not remotely comparable: the worst they can do is send you targeted advertisement or ban you from their service, and they have a financial interest only in the former.
The bold is the real takeaway here: With how big of an internet footprint the Tsarnaev brothers had and the amount of intel the Russians had on them, we can see how impotent PRISM really is (possibly). The more I think about this, the more it just seems as if it is the U.S. government's personal tool to snoop on the world.
Who watches the Watchmen?