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human
ELI5: NSA vs company datamining?

Please don't get me wrong, I'm against all this datamining and privacy disturbing stuff. 

I'm just wondering why are people surprised and upset, that the government is spying on them. When you use google, facebook or almost any online source, you are getting spied on. 

For example, I wanted to download a flashlight application to my phone, and it took permissions to use the camera, take photoes, and send them via internet. Most of the people don't care, or don't mind being watched over by these, but really upset about NSA because woo-woo reading my emails...it has been done already...

Why do you feel its such a big deal that the government admits, what the companies have done already for ages.

*sorry for my bad english*
gpt
It's because they do it without your permission. Your phone asked for permission to use your camera. And even for google and facebook somewhere in the terms and conditions that you agreed to it will say that they use your information. And if you don't like it, you just use some other service. They keep your personal info and in return give you free services.

But the nsa never asked anybody for permission of their personal info and they don't give anything in return. Also they can do much more with that info. Google or facebook don't care about you personally all they want to do is make money with the raw data, but the NSA is interested in the people instead of the raw data.