We must always assume:
-Governments are greedy to obtain more control and information, they collect much more info than necessary
-Service providers cannot protect your privacy from governments
-Both Governments and service providers leaks information about you without knowing it
Conclusion:
-Service providers must build platforms that are impossible to spy on
-Consumers must only use services that are 100% secure
The solution:
-Open source platforms for communication so people can verify the security of the platform
-Peer-2-peer solutions so no single government can take down the platform
-Encrpytion used automatically in a way that not even the service provider can see or decrypt your messages, only you and the recipient can read the messages.
One platform that works exactly in this way is BitMessage
NSA (National Stasi Agency) would not be able to spy on our communication if Skype, Gmail, Hotmail, Facebook were built in the same way as BitMessage.
In a few years Im sure facebook will lose userbase to such services where you can communicate with your friends without being spied on by Zuckerberg or NSA.