Boring pr that ignores the elephant in the room, NSA and other intelligence agencies undoubtably have super user access. They probably even have agents that work at Facebook to ensure they don't lose that access.
For the curious, this is related to the LIRR (Long Island Rail Road) disability benefits fraud.<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/lirr-fraud-scandal-retirees-disability-benefits_n_3534620.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/lirr-fraud-scandal-...</a>
If people hosted their own data, indtead of a centralized service, it would be harder to get everyone's data secretly.<p><a href="http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169" rel="nofollow">http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169</a>