[zaidrahman]

Privacy is what is going to define this generation.

However, no matter what you think, Government Surveillance is better than private surveillance. It's a democracy for crying out loud.

But the preamble, is that the breach of privacy is bad in any use case scenario. Realistically however, surveillance is always going to exist. Either covertly or legally. Nothing much can be done.

[enoch_r]

However, no matter what you think, Government Surveillance is better than private surveillance. It's a democracy for crying out loud.

There are two types of power within a group: exit and voice. The power to change a community, and the power to leave it.

I am not at all confident in the power of my voice to affect the policies of the US government on surveillance/privacy issues. In fact, although my voice has almost no impact on Facebook's policies on privacy, I'd say that I'm almost as likely to influence Facebook's privacy policies by complaining as to influence US Government policies by voting.

Meanwhile, leaving the US is impractical or difficult, and even (especially!) non-US-citizens are subject to the US government's intrusions on privacy, surveillance, as well as the possibility of being killed or abducted without trial. Opting out of Facebook is relatively easy.