Winner! Most misleading headline on Giz today!

Well, that's not correct, (and your analogy is also logically wrong), but whatever.

I think he means to say that even data you'd consider to be private, e.g., emails, instant messages, or data you share with a specific company, like your Google maps history, your Steam records, your PayPal payments... That all of that is just as open a book to agencies like the NSA as is what you post on Facebook.

If you're sticking to the 10 for resolution, the 7s have you covered there now. To each his own, but they're a lot easier to hold/transport. Might want to give one of the newer ones a go (I read comics on my N72013, and it's been fantastic).