A focus on the NSA invading your privacy just distracts from the fact that you give it up in so many other ways without even noticing. […]
And a significant portion of the emails I received were from friends and acquaintances that regularly post about their lives, in minute detail, on Facebook. Apparently, they labor under some misapprehension that what they post online remains forever under their control. […]
The bottom line is pretty much this: Yes, the government can build facilities that will potentially have the capability to seriously invade your privacy. But why should they bother when the vast majority of the country is already giving up that information freely?
http://www.zdnet.com/privacy-concerns-over-the-new-nsa-datacenter-are-a-red-herring-7000014154/