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All this shit though is probably encouraging people to encrypt or look for options that don't involve some yank sniffing through all your emails. If more people encrypt boring shit, it'll waste the snoopers time and that makes me happy.
Why a "yank"... the Brits and Chinese are just as sniffy. But leaving states aside... Companies are also sniffing looking for gold in the mine. O2/Telefonica recently wanted to sell GPS position data to 3rd parties for market research. Where you are is sometimes more important and says more combined with time and grouped into clusters than what you may say--- and also much easier to process.