[rayiner]

Sure. It's called voting. But you don't get to pretend that you have no say in what the government is allowed to do just because the majority of voters don't care about your pet issues.

My mom doesn't care about electronic surveillance. Neither does my dad, or my wife. The vast majority of my friends (mostly non-techies), don't care. Just look at the success of Facebook and Google. People don't care about electronic privacy in general, and most don't try to draw strained distinctions between data they freely share with big corporations and data they think is okay for the government to have. A lot of them do care about preventing terrorism, however. So how can you sit there and pretend the will of the people isn't being served?