This just in: absolutely no strangers (save statistically insignificant outliers like Nacchio) will go to jail to protect your data during a police investigation - nor should they.
Plan accordingly.
Plan accordingly.
On the other hand, we have recently seen much greater evidence about the wholesale surveillance of society under secret law and apparently not accountable in any practical sense to oversight.
The first is normal and appropriate and well within the bounds of civil liberties guaranteed by Fourth Amendment. The second is highly problematic - but one doesn't necessarily lead to the other. Our civil liberties and civil rights have always been subject to appropriate exceptions. The problem is when those exceptions become so broad as to render the freedoms ineffective, not that they exist at all.
[1] Well, obviously one can disagree about the criminalisation of recreational drugs, but they are, so the cops are working within their brief.
Not all of us, gold/bitcoin stash or no, accept that police are a necessary part of society.
Given that one part of society (the state) has historically demonstrated that it will expand to fill any and all available opportunities to exert destructive power over others, it doesn't make much sense to grant them a monopoly on the opportunity to use violence to uphold the law.
Laws, we need. Cops, we don't. The NSA has nothing to do with it.
TL;DR: Fuck the police.