To put it in perspective, state actors have departments full of people who spend their work weeks figuring out how to act on behalf of the state and then execut

To put it in perspective, state actors have departments full of people who spend their work weeks figuring out how to act on behalf of the state and then executing upon those methods. Those people are more organized than you. They are more motivated. They often have the resources to align Apple's and Google's interests with their own. And they are more motivated than you. They are patriotic and surrounded by people who are patriotic and paid to be patriotic. A state actor can travel to your state and get the information when just beating it out of you isn't the better option...but if you're in its state, beating the information out of you is probably the simplest thing that might work. The revolution will not happen on your smartphone. Those days are past and the Arab Spring taught states all they needed to know. Good luck.