It might incrementally reduce the value of the data provided by the NSA’s private-sector helpers; but that’s about it.
On the plus side, since almost any amount of paranoia about internet surveillance (public or private) is probably justified, increased anxiety probably will improve people’s security, albeit against advertising scum rather than feds.
(In an ideal world, advertising scum, along with American ‘cloud’ providers who can’t sell to foreigners anymore, will go crying to congress and deploy their almost-certainly-better-than-the-civil-libertarians lobbying firepower to demand a more ‘business friendly’ atmosphere. If we can’t win on principle, I’ll settle for trying to win because it’s in some scumbag’s economic interest…)
