Indeed, it even validates the use of mass surveilance to begin with. After leaks of the keywords that would &quot;put you on a list&quot; at the NSA, some people seem concerned to exercise their liberties, like googling for things in an attempt to avoid being flagged by intelligence agencies. This, of course, makes everything worse, as now there&#x27;s more reason to commit the spying, as only those truly guilty would ever willing do actions that wind up putting them on a list.<p>This is also related to the encryption by default debate, were we must acknowledge the very large amount of metadata leaked if we only encrypt our communicatioms&#x2F;data when we deem them sensitive.