It was a big year for eavesdropping, with Edward “I Showed Them!” Snowden outing the NSA’s effort to pump tech companies for users’ e-mails and phone records. And while some of the private industries put up a meager fight against the government’s demands to hand over e-mails, it seems Microsoft was more than happy to pull back the veil on Skype and Outlook. The makes the campus in Redmond not just the region’s new eavesdropping capital, but one of the premiere destinations for anyone in the world with a bad sense of personal privacy (read: Obama).