My prediction, for what it's worth…

Snowden to warn Brits on Xmas telly: Your children will NEVER have privacy • The Register

Last week, Snowden talked about smartphone snooping by the US in a second plea to Brazil for asylum, an unsuccessful bid in which he offered to help uncover Uncle Sam's surveillance of South America.

…is that this whole Snowden affair, in the end, will result in less privacy for U.S. citizens, not more: First, because more intelligence gathering will be outsourced to private concerns (this has already been recommended by presidential advisors), resulting in less control over the information collected; second, because employers will become more intrusive about screening the backgrounds and monitoring the communications of employees.