Terror has long been an excuse for all kind of atrocities. Some would argue that this, in comparison, is tame, but it's an alarming view how our technological habits creates a very real fingerprint of everything we do. There are no secrets, in the digital world the sense of anonymity is just that, an illusion.
Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order