Sounds like a very bleak future. One where all user data and metadata are at the hands of a company that not only is able to do the same... not-quite-nice thin

Sounds like a very bleak future. One where all user data and metadata are at the hands of a company that not only is able to do the same... not-quite-nice things as others did and were proven to do so by Snowden, but whose founder already had a product ending with a privacy lawsuit scandal on its bag.