I take heart in the simple fact that the NSA is becoming less and less effective as they wallow in deeper and deeper data.

They already can't do anything practically valuable with the data they have, and they are scooping up terabytes more every month.

My hope is that eventually the security apparatuses in the USA will be so inundated with data that they will spend entire lifetimes spinning in completely ineffectual circles. See the movie "Brazil" for a preview of what working at the NSA will be like in 3 years.

In the mean time, the rest of us will go about our daily lives, constantly unconsciously creating a deeper and wider stream of data as we move through the IoT and BYOD-enabled world... trillions of utterly useless datapoints tracked and measured and quantified by grey bureaucrats locked away in damp, flickering-neon lit underground bunkers, ever-digging for that one pre-crime correlation that will allow them to catch a crime before it happens... or did it?

Armies of less-than-junior grade functionaries will be tasked with the almost constant replacement of blown RAM, hard drive swapping, motherboard hot-swapping, and power supply replacement, in football-field sized datacenters, and generating a waste stream that piles up like Wall-E's own view of heaven.

The government and security apparat is drowning in its own filth, unable to swim to shore.