User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-82.168.125.187-20140205005613/@comment-82.168.125.187-20140205014929

Snowden did not really tell anything new. When the patriot act was passed law experts in the Netherlands (and probably anywhere else in the world) already warned us this would happen. In fact that is one of the reasons I have always turned down cloud support in any circumstance I faced. Unless I had oversight on the server, like with a private owned vpn connection. The other reasons of course being that it does not really add anything, makes things more complex and makes you lose grip of your own identity. And obviously there is no logic in storing your downloads online. If you want to do that, why download (and save) them in the first place?

The new thing is that mass media picked it up this time and times were ready for joined public outrage.