http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/18/the-full-prism-letter-google-yahoo-apple-facebook-and-microsoft-are-sending-congress/
This blog post is in response to this article above. The TL:DR of it, is that a bunch of fancy companies are asking congress for a favor. Big deal.
Once we're positioned the conversation to be about politely asking the government for transparency instead of designing our web applications and data storage with full encryption and privacy, we've already lost.
Welcome to the future folks, where companies have to politely ask the government to be able to talk to their customers, where companies don't design their products with your security or privacy in mind, and only decide to confront the government when they feel enough public pressure to do so.
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