People used to not care about what was in their food, but enough people spazzed out about it that regulations were passed to deal with certifying the quality and contents of food in many places in the world, and now we can consume food with a significantly lower risk of our food containing lead or horrible diseases.

If CarrierIQ does get pwned in the upcoming months/years (legalities tend to be drawn out), when the dust settles there'll be either new regulations on carriers and device manufacturers, or enough residual public sentiment against privacy violations that people will remain that after another couple such violations, we'll see some serious action in that direction.

Mike Fila: Thank you for the informative links.