Do you mean, being a victim of prism? When tech companies found out about the NSA wiretapping unencrypted connections between their datacenters they pretty much flipped out and got serious about security against nation-state attacks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/how-to-talk-about-prism-and-...