If you don't want cockroaches in your house, one way is to stand around all night, waiting for them, and then try to stomp them out. Good luck. A more effective way would be to keep a really clean house. Don't leave food around in the first place. Of course, some people find that too difficult, and they just put up with the roaches.
Trying to pass laws to restrict the NSA has several problems. First, there are at least 17 spy agencies in the US government, many of which are capable of snooping on us. Some already are. Second, if there weren't such agencies, someone would invent them. The massive caches of data sitting inside companies like Google are simply too tempting (think leftover food and roaches). Third, these databases will never be completely secure--someone inside or outside can hack them. (We can thank Snowden for proving it.)
To get to the heart of the problem, we must make it harder for companies to collect all this data in the first place, and we must bring the process into the light of day. Our petition seeks to do just that. Please sign it and pass it along.
Note: we recognize the irony that MoveOn also collects your data when you sign. At least they tell you they're doing it, but we still would rather they didn't. Maybe they will improve their privacy policies--we can only hope so.
thank you!
http://petitions.moveon.org/...