Vi har en Facebook-plugin og en Google-plugin og en Apple-computer og er brugere af Instagram og Dropbox. Vore data – chatbeskeder, statusopdateringer, billeder osv. – findes på servere i USA. (Denne blog er vi for så vidt selv herrer over.)

Et citat fra The Guardians interview med Edward Snowden (læs det!) fanger hele problemet i få, præcise formuleringer.

Q: Why did you decide to become a whistleblower?

A: “The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

“I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things … I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.”