An interesting take on your comment: would people be more open to the NSA snarfing everything if they also acted as a personal Google, giving you access to all your own "lost" data?
I was thinking something to the effect "I will make all data I save that references your account or IP available to you through the following portal" - I of course, can't do it yet, as I haven't built the portal or figured out how to separate the data, but I think it's a neat solution to some of the problems I have (e.g. I really want to start doing console logging on VPSs 'cause it gives me a wealth of data when someone says "something was wrong with my VPS last night" - but so far I haven't (I do log physical consoles, just 'cause it's impossible to deal with hardware otherwise) due to privacy concerns.)
I need to limit the number of times I give myself extra work as 'motivation' - you get to the point where you spend all your time shooting alligators, and don't have any time at all to drain the swamp.
I mean, sometimes this is better than just not doing it? but not in this case, if you ask me.
Somewhere I read a quote: People under surveillance, are already imprisoned.
The first step is to understand that one is under surveillance.