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by DanBC 4744 days ago
People just don't care - Facebook's changing privacy policies but continued popularity proves that. Taking someone's communications metadata doesn't appear to have any affect on their lives at all.

There's some vague tut-tutting, but most people know it was going on for years.

I live in Cheltenham, so I know many people who work for GCHQ, but they don't talk about it at all. I have no idea if they were aware of the scale and depth of intercepts.