[wanderingstan]

I really hope that someone in Hollywood (or a Fiction author) sees the potential here. What would an anti-Snowden have done in his place? Monitor his girlfriend? Dig up dirt on a romantic rival? Blackmail a senator?

Or for that matter, now that politicians know this power is out there, how about a Senator finding an anti-Snowden to get dirt on a political rival?

You basically take "The Lives of Others" and have a modern-day script with a few search-and-replaces.

[malandrew]

Yes. A thousand times yes. Forget Minority Report. Build up an entire script based solely on the facts of what we already know the NSA's systems are capable of right now.

The script should try to weave in every abuse scenario that is practically possible: Digging up for personal vendettas and blackmail. Insider trading. Manipulating politics or the economy in other countries. Manipulating politics or the economy in our own country. Sock puppeting. etc.

Design the script to play to the fears of every politically influential group.

There are more than enough facts out there now to weave a very plausible story that looks like a prequel to 1984.

[L_Rahman]

Guardian journalist Charlie Booker is the showrunner of a series called Black Mirror on Channel 4 in Britain where each episode is centered around exploring the potential impact of technology in the near future.

There are some scripts written up for a third series and the NSA revelations would be perfect to explore in a show like that. The problem, as is the general case with this issue, that far too few people are actively engaging it. Black Mirror drew around 1.6m viewers at its highest point, but this was admittedly only in the UK and there was no hot button issue being explored.