> We need stronger privacy laws to stop these activities rather than trying to circumvent them ourselves. This assumes that the government can be trusted to ca

> We need stronger privacy laws to stop these activities rather than trying to circumvent them ourselves. This assumes that the government can be trusted to care about the citizen's privacy. This is an assumption that at least cypherpunks explicitly do not share. Just find some case involving terrorism or child abuse (depending on the political climate), and new surveillance laws will become passed.