Comment by gorbachev
9 months ago
I'm with you on this.
At this point the only thing I think that could happen to change the status quo is a full blown war against a country that's going to use hacked data against the United States in such a disruptive way that the legislators would have to react due to national security concerns.
I think the opposite is a lot more likely.
WHen it comes to it, the US gov has incredible leverage with the data they have access to. If they forced all the major tech companies to release everything they have on the most powerful politicians of some country, including email contents, text messages, full search and location history and so on, they could cause quite a scandal.
You can probably overthrow quite a few governments with a judicious use of that power alone.