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In today’s world, the net has become a part of our everyday lives. We can easily communicate through email, post pictures, and in many cases pay bills all at the click of a button. Needless to say, a lot of our personal and information is available over the internet, but recently however, the U.S. government continues to be under fire to the non-warranted surveillance with this information, and Google staff is outraged.

For a company like Google, many issues will surface due to this. Firstly, Google is a tech company which has a global infrastructure, so wherever their helps are used, information will be sent onto a worldwide network. When the U.S. government can gain access to these records, countries in other areas of the world is not going to feel safe using Google’s services. Brazil as an example, is considering “data localization laws”, preventing Google from doing work in “one in the world’s most significant markets”.

Another issue that arises is always that this completely disagrees not only Google’s undermining organizational culture, but business ethics generally speaking. To the public, Google has always been known as a positive place to work, with many different empowerment and intrinsic motivation for employees. When something their users realizes the knowledge they give while using the average settlement for invasion of privacy have already been under surveillance through the government, it requires a huge lash at both the trust they share, and the revenue streams of Google.