Check out this great article I read on WIRED:
Personal Privacy Is Only One of the Costs of NSA Surveillance
""But if you look closer, the more accurate story is that in the name of security, we're trading away not only privacy, but also the U.S. tech economy, internet openness, America's foreign policy interests and cybersecurity."
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/the-big-costs-of-nsa-surveillance-that-no-ones-talking-about/