I generally agree with you; governments have c̶h̶i̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶w̶a̶y̶ taken a sledge hammer to privacy with The Patriot Act, NSA's mass surveillance program, PR

I generally agree with you; governments have c̶h̶i̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶w̶a̶y̶ taken a sledge hammer to privacy with The Patriot Act, NSA's mass surveillance program, PRISM, and the UK's Investigatory Powers Act etc. It is hard to quantify the chilling effects of losing privacy, similar to being impossible to prove a negative as there is no conclusive way to prove that something does not exist or did not happen.