"The real reason we don't have easy end-user cryptography is that these companies would lose access to mine your data" Jeremy Kun recently wrote a good article

"The real reason we don't have easy end-user cryptography is that these companies would lose access to mine your data" Jeremy Kun recently wrote a good article summarizing some recent advances in encryption that make your statement somewhat less-than-entirely-accurate (scan for "differential privacy"): http://jeremykun.com/2013/06/10/why-theoretical-computer-scientists-arent-worried-about-privacy/ http://jeremykun.com/2013/06/10/why-theoretical-computer-sci...