[some_googler]

Yep, for better or worse it's a digital life now. Good luck opting out of the cloud for your bank transactions, your health insurance claims, Amazon orders, etc. Our emails, chats and cat videos are but a small part of sensitive data that we have stored in somebody else's data centers; cynicism and Luddite rejection of the few items we can "take back" like email servers will not help much. The only solution is to fix the system. At Google, and other conscious internet services, we're doing everything we can. But users and voters have to help too. For example, yesterday it was revealed that the NSA has been able to successfully MITM users connecting to SSL-protected Google services. Now I don't want to use this to plug Google Chrome, but if you're using any browser without all bleeding-edge security features like cert pinning and PFS, then you deserve to be 0wned by various high-profile hackers.