Re: dan1980
@Matt
To draw a parallel, think of someone who is subject to a 'peeping tom'. This miscreant has in no way hurt or changed the person being spied on but and so, by the kind of definition you appear to be using, this is no cause for concern or upset. It doesn't change our victim's 'way of life'.
After all, nothing is preventing that person get undressed in a change room at a public swimming pool.
The imposition on 'way of life' here is that people very much feel violated when their privacy is intruded upon in such fashion and are are wary about it happening again - a woman who has been spied on in a public change room might thereafter always make sure that she only gets changed using that awkward holding the towel up manoeuvre. Or perhaps she puts on her swimming costume underneath her clothes at home before she leaves and then drives home wrapped in a towel so she can change back in to normal clothes at home.
This is the most basic way in which our 'way of life' is being affected by these spying regimes. We now have to go to - sometimes great - lengths to ensure that those things we feel private and personal are hidden from prying eyes.
The thing is that the vast majority of people want and expect privacy in their day-to-day lives and we want some control over who we let into our lives.
Once that expectation is shattered - such as it has been and continually is being - people will do one of two things. Either they will accept it, in which case they have lost something (privacy) that they had before and simply resolve themselves the the new reality.
OR, they maintain that desire for privacy and take steps to maintain that privacy as best they can, which usually involves a combination of changing not only what you do but how you do it.
This is, in every sense that matters, affecting their 'way of life'.
That is doesn't bother you, personally is utterly irrelevant.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
