
Wait for it, the screaming...
as the spooks will undoubtedly raise the FUD factor to "Absurd" in an attempt to derail the oncoming horde of personal privacy assurrance.
The issue: they created this situation in the first place. If they would have reined themselves in, their desire to reach anywhere and everywhere they could because they could, they wouldn't be in this oncoming position. They, the government spooks, triggered "The George Orwell Factor", the fear of Big Brother, and now they are trying to control their self-induced damage of the general public attempting to assure their own personal privacy.
Oops.
The battle lines are being drawn as we watch: how much can private individuals and industry do to give the customer what they (now, finally) want, better privacy, vs the government's desire to keep their hands in the cookie jar. The spooks will yell, "Think of the children!", and the public will yell back "For every stupid 'children' fear comment, god kills a kitten!", and many of us will break out the popcorn as our 'duly elected' politicians attempt a land-grab on a power base of data. And don't think that this isn't ultimately [your] politician's fault: they created the laws and they are the ones not rewriting the laws to stop the data abuse.
But we'll vote them back in anyway.
Ah, the humanity.