I've spent the good part of today reading through this weeks posts and found a few ideas floating around, one of which is now barely relavent to the debate anymore if you've paid attention to the news of this year. One of the most common statements I read, particularly from US citizens is "Well police can't do x or y because they have to follow the law/constitution/etc". Let us stop kidding ourselves and realise something - the law is not there to protect you but to prosecute you and limit your freedom. For every defence you have in law there are probably 5 or 10 workarounds that the lawyers at organisations such as the NSA, GCHQ, MI5, CIA, Interpol, FATF etc have stored up and when that doesn't work for them, politicians turn a blind eye to the case where it is at all feasible despite obvious violations of the laws they make.You should not rely on the laws and rights of an individual to protect you, if the NSA and GCHQ have been collecting so much metadata for so long undetected and continue to do so then it isn't exactly infeasible to suggest everything you do is being collected. Who knows, Snowden may be wrong on them collecting metadata, they make just do that to filter or tag information and then store the entire document in some kind of archive, nobody knows for sure that has so far come out in public.Assume you are rogue and you must protect yourself, especially the US/UK citizens here, you are alone and the laws and rights of your country will not be there when you need them because as with everything complex and designed by government, when they can make it complex enough to boggle the mind of the layperson, they can surely work it to their advantage and you will be left looking like an asshat demanding your rights only to find you missed the smalltext.Vendors/Buyers - You are responsible for protecting yourself, not the law, so don't rely on it.