Then we should "fix" that. Instead, we've been letting the government give these companies immunities for letting them gather the data in bulk from them. I thi

Then we should "fix" that. Instead, we've been letting the government give these companies immunities for letting them gather the data in bulk from them. I think people just want to communicate with each other, and the Internet is the best way to do that right now. If we can build an Internet where we can easily do that without giving all this data to 3rd parties, people would use that, but until then they don't have much choice. As Schneier says, advising people to "quit Google" or Facebook, is not really a choice in today's Internet. But if developers and the architects of the Internet realize what a problem this is, then maybe we can come up with other more secure alternative solutions.