[kikkak]

I dream of the day where I'm not followed around by my data exhaust. It's just wishful thinking.

I feel that the marginal benefit of social media systems has peaked. It's begun to make interactions less human and less personal; the gain over using email is negligible. I don't need to see your picture, I just want to know when I'll have VPN access.

[waspleg]

I'd wager a large portion of the readers of this site are too young to know what it as like to not have your entire life under 24/7 surveillance.

I hope the back lash is enormous. Security = Privacy = Democracy; you can't have one without the others.

Chilling effects brought on by "you should be careful what you say (and to whom)" is the death of freedom of speech, and with it "free" society.