> Nobody really cares about your personal Facebook messages to your friends and family. You're not that important. This is demonstrably false. Companies are ve

> Nobody really cares about your personal Facebook messages to your friends and family. You're not that important. This is demonstrably false. Companies are very interested in your private communications and the buying and selling of your personal private data is a multi-billion dollar industry. Governments also have an interest in your data because they can flag you for whatever the current administration finds distasteful. That might mean identifying threats to those in power like activists, or (as we've seen in other places) attempts to hunt down whatever they consider "evil" like homosexuals The issue isn't privacy vs security. Loss of privacy is also loss of security.