What if Google merged with DHS?

Author and Boing Boing blogger Cory Doctorow has picked up plenty of attention for his story, "Scroogled," which tells a tale of the Department of Homeland Security being especially effective at using Google to police the citizenry. Dystopian futures have been the foundation of tales like George Orwell's novel, '1984', and Alan Moore's graphic novel turned big screen Natalie Portman vehicle, 'V for Vendetta'. Doctorow's peek at the future, titled Wall Street Journal picked up on the buzz, interviewing Doctorow about his grim view of how online privacy concerns have real world implications. For this future to come true, Google would have to do something that it fought against: sharing copious amounts of user information with the federal government. That couldn't happen, though. The government would have to be