An effective partnership with the private sector must be formed so information can move quickly back and forth from public to private and classified to unclassified… to protect the nation's critical infrastructure. Recent reports of possible partnership between Google and the government point to the kind of joint efforts—and shared challenges—that we are likely to see in the future… such arrangements will muddy the waters between the traditional roles of the government and the private sector.… Cyberspace knows no borders, and our defensive efforts must be similarly seamless.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 382