Again, governments do not have "rights" - they have powers.
And we are not discussing warrantless wiretaps. We are discussing entities like phone companies and search engines sharing data they have legally collected with the NSA.
It is the advocates of Big Brother such as yourself, those who prefer promises of "security" to liberty.
Personal attacks are not a substitute for rational discourse.
And dismissing your ideological opponents as "so-called conservatives" isn't a personal attack?
Ever-expanding powers, one might add, facilitated by those on the Left who demand cradle to grave social services in the name of "social justice", and those on the Right who want a police state in the name of "security."
Defending unconstitutional violations of the US Constitution by a government which has demonstrated NO respect of the USCON nor WE The People is not a substitute for any "patriotism" by ANY definition.
You Sir, are on the wrong side of history, the wrong side of the US Constitution, and the wrong side of the principles from which this Republic was Founded -- that is BY the People, and FOR the People. Secret Stasi have no place in our Constitution.