Most "normal" people have probably been bored stupid by geeks getting upset over this issue in the last week. It is possible to follow a story passively in the background, and come to a conclusion about it based on faith rather than objective reasoning. However, bad things get; a lot of people will always believe that "the war will be over by, Christmas" because it is easier to just have faith and ignore the nerds.

There is a problem in how hackers/geeks/techies portray themselves. You know that this kind of monitoring is bad because if you had the data you could do bad things (but you wouldn't because of ethics). But every app still expects people to hand over the same data and to trust the developer. Expecting people to know which geeks they can trust and which are creepy is a big ask.