This is going to be a short diary because my hope is to solicit other people's opinions rather than view my own, which I'm still forming. When it comes to the NSA and PRISM, I'm not (yet) quite as outraged as others, mostly because there seems to be a lot of conflicting information, and my experience has been that often these stories don't end up looking like the way they started. Generally though, I do believe the NSA should be doing something to try to keep us safe, and I'm guessing most everyone agrees with me on that. We've spent a lot of time here discussing what constitutes a breach of fourth amendment rights when it comes to information gathering and analysis, but I'd like to shift the focus to what you think the government should be doing, and how exactly they should be going about doing it. If you care to chime in, please be as specific as possible in terms of how the government should be retrieving and handling information -- what sorts of information, where they're getting it from, what they're doing with it, etc... Outline specific scenarios and examples if you can. It might be helpful to review the above link as an example (regardless of whether or not it's true -- it certainly could be true). I believe this side of it is important to consider and I'm interested in your thoughts. And if you feel the NSA really shouldn't be doing any digital spying at all, go ahead and make a case for that.