It is sad for me to see the course that the US and the European governments have taken in the recent years. My company (a small european provider of mobile tel

It is sad for me to see the course that the US and the European governments have taken in the recent years. My company (a small european provider of mobile telephony and chat) has to store all traffic that is going over our service during the last six months for the government, which may request that data. They didn't yet try to get that data in bulk, but I am pretty sure that we will see that happen in the near future. And there will be nothing that we can do about it as a small company if we want to stay in business and out of prison. I believe that at some point this will harm IT business, which hopefully will also cause the government to rethink their strategy, but I am afraid of how far they will have to go before they come to this realization. In 1998 (as a 17 year old boy) I was able to board a plane in London to Vienna without passport. (because I've lost it during my trip) Today I have to give fingerprints and other biometric data like a criminal just to get a new passport. Tomorrow maybe it will be a standard procedure that robots do a body cavity search on me before boarding a plane. It is funny that I, as a tech enthusiast, am hoping that I wont see the kind of progress in robotics during my lifespan, that enables them to do anal probing at scale in airports.