You bring out some good issues. Three things come out to me... 1. What we post through most social media platforms is direct messages rather than private messa

You bring out some good issues. Three things come out to me... 1. What we post through most social media platforms is direct messages rather than private messages. It's a subtle semantic difference but an important one. The things we say there isn't private. I remember reading about banks getting access to direct messages on FB. I'm not suggesting governments should pilfer this information. I am suggesting we should not have an expectation of privacy. 2. There is a semantic difference between "because technology" being used to avoid warrants and a government looking at what one says in public. I think this is important because pushing for and informing the public on one does not inform or solve the other. The "because technology" angle needs far more general society discussion. 3. There is another angle to the security/privacy discussion. In order to keep privacy one may need to not engage with certain things in certain ways. For example, if I don't want my neighbors to know what I'm doing in my yard I need to live in a place with a natural boundary, like a rural area. Being in a rural area means I'm not living in a city. It's a trade-off and always has been. I totally understand the issue with abuse and the 'because technology' situation.