&gt; Am I the only one concerned with the concept of billion-dollar publicly-traded corporations going to bat for individual civil liberties?<p>As opposed to the billion-dollar taxpayer-funded government agencies going to bat <i>against</i> individual civil liberties?<p>Maybe the problem is the NSA&#x27;s dual mandate. If there was a large government agency whose only job was to improve the security of American communications against criminals and foreign attackers then they would be fighting the fight, instead of the NSA&#x27;s effective &quot;no comment&quot; because their mission is self-compromising.