To be fair, technology makes it easy to firehose-vacuum data for both the government and civilians if you know how to wield that power. The government needs to

To be fair, technology makes it easy to firehose-vacuum data for both the government and civilians if you know how to wield that power. The government needs to supply a letter stating that they're 'quartering troops' in your datacenters in an abstract manner (bureaucratic exploit) while the normal user learns the intricacies of the system and uses that (technological exploit). It so happens that fixing bureaucratic 0days are harder than fixing tech. 0days.