The telcos are a bigger problem if you are living in the USA. If you are a non-US-citizen outside the USA, the web companies are a bigger problem, because a) yo

The telcos are a bigger problem if you are living in the USA. If you are a non-US-citizen outside the USA, the web companies are a bigger problem, because a) you're probably well out of the reach of Verizon (though also within reach of your domestic phone snooping) and b) unlike an American or US resident, you have no legal protection if the NSA decides it would like to look at your web-company data for any reason, though it still has to issue an individualised order to make you one of the few thousand people or groups it's following on Facebook (as 'twere).