nutjob2 :
It's a great time to be a criminal or a terrorist. Paranoid and delusional millennials in a panic about the NSA reading their emails to grandma are giving them free reign.
Don't you understand why the 4th Amendment was created? Universal surveillance hurts democracy. I doubt any US government agency will be interested in me, personally, but what about whistleblowers and candidates in opposition parties? It's this indirect harm that I fear.
Have you never heard of Watergate? If Nixon were President today, his spying would probably never come to light, and he'd have been able to learn
so much more. This is the real threat, IMO.
chicofehr :
Why would Facebook and Google encrypt their data so they can't get full access to it? They rely on stealing and harvesting your data as their business model.
Read more carefully:
OWS recently helped companies such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Silent Circle, and Google implement its open source end-to-end encryption protocol into their own chat applications.