“Indeed, surveys have found the unremitting surveillance scandal could take billion-dollar bites out of businesses whose stock-in-trade is user information – which is to say, much of the online economy today.

But the events seem to be having the opposite effect on organizations promising to strengthen security and privacy protections. In fact, there’s been a surge of funding, new customers and media attention for these sorts of companies and their projects.”

Source: Privacy firms boom in wake of surveillance scandal – SFGate