"Today, his biggest worry is not software backdoors, but the petabytes (1m gigabytes) of information being hoarded by the likes of Google and Facebook. “If you

"Today, his biggest worry is not software backdoors, but the petabytes (1m gigabytes) of information being hoarded by the likes of Google and Facebook. “If you collect all that data, it becomes an attractive nuisance. It’s kind of a siren calling out inviting someone to come and try to get it. Governments say that if private industry can have it, why can’t our intelligence agencies have it?” I am hoping if enough people stop using these two services; they might start deleting information permanently? I know Google is hard to give up, but I don't think they need to keep everything. As to Facebook, I can't see any reason, other than business, as to why they keep every bit of information we put up there--forever.