The author has tunnel vision that the only actors in the room are users, service provider and the state. (And the service provider is colluding with users for s

The author has tunnel vision that the only actors in the room are users, service provider and the state. (And the service provider is colluding with users for some reason to stymie the state's power). Service providers are made up of employees, contractors, interns and temps. Given a pile of easily searchable user information one of these individuals working for the service provider is going to start poking around that pile of information for reasons not aligned with providing the service. (Boredom, compromise, love interests, personal activism, etc). End to end encryption terminated on the client puts a powerful boundary between the individual user and the individuals working for the service provider. It makes your private data strictly safer.