There are a lot of tech companies that can argue that they are doing everything within their power to protect privacy from government actors (e.g. Apple, Yahoo,

There are a lot of tech companies that can argue that they are doing everything within their power to protect privacy from government actors (e.g. Apple, Yahoo, but not, say, Verizon[1]). It just so happens that "everything within their power" might be extremely little, if they are required to maintain their existing structure and comply with the letter of the law. At some point our options really become: relying on tech providers without presence in "unsafe" jurisdictions (if there are any), relying on tech providers willing to disobey the law (and ideally capable of convincing us they disobey them in our favor. Via: open-source, audits, etc) or pursuing reform of those laws. [1] https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015 https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...