[rayiner]

I think there is a big difference between a safe deposit box, where a bank employee would have to break the law and break a lock to access the contents of an account, and something like a gmail account where there are numerous employees authorized to access the contents of the accounts (see the recent story about the Google employee that stalked teenagers), and where the "bank" scans through the contents of the accounts in the regular course of business (to target ads). A bank typically has no idea what you store in a safe deposit box. Google and Facebook know exactly what you store in your accounts with them, and their business model depends on their knowing the contents of your supposedly "private" accounts.