edit: I say that now in retrospect that security and freedoms of data seem always at odds. DRM being a keen example. Just wish we had better options..
This explains why most enterprise applications and platforms are a nightmare to work with. This class is called "UserView" oh but you see comrade it actually does not have any view or user, in fact its sole purpose is to be compiled and thrown away - nevermind the JIRA issues for bugs in it. Everything is "business logic" "business specific", noone who hasnt been at the place for 3-5 years can understand that this is not actulaly what it says it is.
This kind of feature was called before JCR, "Just for Curious Russians".
Everyone, the NSA, rest of our government, all governments, all citizens of the world, all businesses should be protected. If we just spent a small percentage of what we spend on endless wars for profit, then I think we could mostly reach these goals.
I would like to think that we could still catch and prosecute criminals, and I include terrorists when I say criminals, without violating rights to privacy and our general rights.
Without reference to a specific user, all you can talk about is a computing system being restricted or unrestricted, and I don't want my computing devices to have restrictions imposed by someone other than myself.