If anyone knows where "the creepy line" lies, it's Eric Schmidt. And he says the NSA has crossed it by spying on Google's data centers. "The steps that the organization was willing to do without good judgment to pursue its mission and potentially violate people’s privacy, it’s not OK,” Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal.

In order to keep the internet humming, the biggest data companies in the world link enormous data centers together—and at the seams, the NSA has been listening. The Washington Post reports just how deeply the feds have infiltrated our online lives.