In the end we have two or three mutually exclusive goals in play at the same time.
Free speech means 'anyone can say anything, anywhere, anytime' and deal with the consequence of saying it individually. (That last bit people keep forgetting, BTW, especially down in the US where they extend the notion of free speech to be 'consequence-free speech' which never happens in the real world).
Security means 'we don't let people do things they want when it impacts us in a way we don't like'.
Utility means 'we want access to everything because we can use it to things we want.'
These can't all be true at the same time. It's just that simple.
To make it worse, people have some very strange idea what rights they have. Like here in Canada, some people believe they have a fundamental "natural" right to bear arms. We have to remind them that they're in the wrong country - it's the US that has that. Canadians don't even have an inalienable property right let alone a right to bear or own arms.
When groups like the EuroParliament establish rights such as the right to data privacy - that's actually a much bigger thing than most Europeans seem to get. In the rest of the world, your data is not protected in this way. Canada has some data protection rights - but the US has almost none and what they do have is cruftily cobbled together out of the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments to their constitution and only applies to their governments (barely.. see recent events pertaining to the NSA).
It's very rare for a government or quasi-governmental agency to intentionally restrict its and other's abilities to take something from you.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
