It is duty of concerned citizens who object this practice to make them more expensive and less effective.
This can be a very bad thing, and it make combination of a "regular phone" and a 7 inch tablet much more attractive then smartphone (and available a fraction of the cost).I can see why Brazil and Germany are now concerned about NSA activities.I can't understand why they are not concerned about stupidity of their citizens opening accounts and putting confidential information on the Webmail systems such as Hotmail, Yahoo mail and Gmail (all three are mentioned in Prism slide above ;-). Accounts in Hotmail or Gmail has their value, but primary useful as spam folders.As we have all found out, that trust is misplaced, as "cloud" services were systematically abused.In a way after Snowden revelations we all now need to learn Aesop language (slang is actually almost in-penetratable to computer analysis, unless they are specifically programmed for the particular one) and be more careful.