This is mind-bogglingly blind. Snowden continues to leak because he has no choice; his ability to do so is the only card he has to survive with. And in any case Snowden is irrelevant now. Spook tactics 1: Shoot the messenger, then pretend nobody heard the message.
(This is why you’re making a false choice. Giving up your details to government is what causes your home town to look like Damascus within your kids’ lifetime. When your state security is populated entirely by criminals - as it currently is - who do you think protects you from crime? Ask any police state survivor how well that works.)
If you want the argument to become intelligent instead of tabloid, you’ll have to start by giving up your paranoid fear of terrorists and mobs and start by making detailed threat assessments based on actual relative risk.
