If our media are too corrupt, then we need to create new ones that work better and change our habits. Submission to corruption can not be a mid- or long-term solution.
> But it just feels creepy to email me about it this way.
In other words:
"Yes, I know it's wrong and they should not know these things about me, but I want to use their product anyway, so can we please just pretend nobody knows what's going on in our society?"
The recurring pattern I see, however, is: We single out 0.001% of all cases, do something extraordinary, and make a big fuss about it in the media. All this to make us feel good about ourselves. What we don't want to fix though, are the real causes of the problems, because that's way less pleasant to do.
Sorry man, priorities - you got them wrong. Who cares about a few credit card numbers or "personal love notes" when we find ourselves living in corrupt "democracies" that are about to crumble pretty much all over the Western world.
"We must handle this in secret! Trust us! It's for your own good! We just want to protect you from the danger!"
Why do I keep hearing this bullshit from all governments all over the World? (The last time, it was the NSA saying we should let them set up the police state.)
Secrecy has nothing to do with democracy. It kills it. (And that seems to be the goal, lately.)
> A U.S. email provider can promise its users all the security and privacy it wants; it still has to do whatever it takes to give the government access.
Also, if they're doing things they don't want other people to know, maybe they shouldn't be doing those things in the first place.
Or something.