DON'T KNOW: The privacy conundrum

This article in Wired really gets at the issue of transparency and data collection (or surveillance, depending on your interpretation). 

Sites like Ghostery start to scratch the surface of data analytics. But it goes much deeper than that. Where is the the line between public and private? In the future, will the government need a subpoena for tweets? The more important question is should they?

'There’s an implicit bargain between users and these online services. We trust you with our data and let you use it to serve us ads in exchange for free or cheap services. But trust is rooted in transparency. And right now, there’s no sizable company doing it right when it comes to telling us what data is being stored and how often and how the world’s governments come asking for it.'

Interesting chart on how different companies are approaching this issue.