>Your attempt at forming a foundation for a creepy, fascist ideology is very illuminating, though. the only "foundation" I'm forming is that you need to be awa

>Your attempt at forming a foundation for a creepy, fascist ideology is very illuminating, though. the only "foundation" I'm forming is that you need to be aware of who you trust your data to, that you can't assert rights to data which you willingly handed over to third parties with a licence to use that data. >quietly extorted No business, that I've seen, has ever been "quietly extorted" I would love to see you prove me wrong. a) The cases where there are NDAs to be signed, then the data gathering is constrained to one user. The purpose of such NDAs is obviously needed in such cases. And I'm sure that if the business in question was cooperating with criminals willingly, they'll break their NDA to let their buddies know that The Man is on to them. Even in the case of Lavabit, they've never stated otherwise and are transparently using the event for personal publicity. b) In the cases where metadata is gathered such as business records, the businesses say this in their EULA where they say "we cooperate with government requests for data" along with "we respect your data privacy"