content: To piggyback, the original Snowden leak showed that the US Government had been granted access to user data by many private companies.  And in cases where they were not granted permission, they were infiltrating agents in those companies, intercepting data between datacenters, and compromising hardware.  Their goal is to access all data, and don't care much about permission, due process, warrants, or civil rights.  With or without corporate cooperation, they will get that data.