I think the NSA revelations may also hurt data mining initiatives in the private sector. At some point I think the privacy advocates that are criticizing NSA ac

I think the NSA revelations may also hurt data mining initiatives in the private sector. At some point I think the privacy advocates that are criticizing NSA access to private sector data, will turn their attention to the services that hold the data. I believe there will be more pressure on service providers to purge archived data, whether it be phone call meta-data or other kinds of information.