Americans have lately become aware that sometimes their phone calls and web data might be looked at by spies and spooks in our government, and this has outraged many. In a companion article, “Wither Privacy?” I explained how monitoring of communications, not just by go...

The media has been atwitter of late with countless stories about how “they” are snooping on our private data. A recent story in the Guardian loudly proclaimed the “Death of the Internet as We Know It” since the big cloud services such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and mo...