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Yesterday, that Google 鈥� the world鈥檚 largest Internet search company 鈥� is negotiating an information-sharing agreement with the National Security Agency (NSA) 鈥� the world鈥檚 largest network for routine, mass communications surveillance.

The partnership is supposed to help protect Google鈥檚 networks, but the ramifications of companies like Google working with the NSA are frightening.

The NSA 鈥� a component of the Department of Defense 鈥� is an intelligence collection agency with few effective checks against abuse, and no public oversight of its activities. The NSA sucks up the equivalent of the contents of the Library of Congress every six to eight hours, every single day. In the last decade, the NSA鈥檚 dragnet, suspicionless surveillance has targeted everyday Americans, in violation of the law and the Constitution. (To lean more about NSA spying, download our fact sheet on 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Surveillance Society鈥�).

If companies like Google think they need the government鈥檚 help to secure their networks, then a civilian agency needs to step up to the task. Cybersecurity for the American people should not be handed over to a military spy agency, one that is insulated from public oversight and has a history of secretly exploiting vulnerabilities, rather than fixing them.

Concerned? You can , letting them know that you object to such a deal and value your privacy online.