There's absolutely a difference between information shared freely with a company in accordance with their privacy policy, and a government organization performi

There's absolutely a difference between information shared freely with a company in accordance with their privacy policy, and a government organization performing illegal data collection (per the DOJ) on their citizens without their knowledge or consent. I can't parse whether you feel the knowledge of encryption or the encryption itself is dangerous, but the dangerous encryption argument is easy to make from a position of privilege by someone who has never been oppressed by an authoritarian state. (I can sympathize with the point of view that holier-than-thou tech companies with a scope of data collection that would make the NSA green with envy are laughably hypocritical on data collection... companies that compile shadow profiles on non-users I would be willing to lump in with the NSA data collection, incredibly suspect and probably illegal as well)