It's funny.
I remember in the 1990s the lid was blown off of the fact that Echelon wasn't only pointed outward to look and listen at the Soviets, but inward to look and listen at us (by which I mean US citizens). People had a ****ing fit over that.
Then about six years later...people started lining up to turn their personal lives over first to the governments of the world (any of them...all of them) then to Google and Facebook.
Truly, the age of privacy is over and lies in ruins.