Perhaps the number one priority of those in tech should be to educate the public about the potential intrusiveness of data surveillance.<p>Politicians and idiot TV hosts have made statements akin to "all they are collecting are phone numbers, times and cell tower data".<p>Ha! Give me that and access to other sources such as LinkedIn, Facebook, your email on Gmail, your Google docs, IRS and state tax filings, court documents, vehicle registration, travel records, Amazon, Ebay, college and university records and a myriad of other publicly and not-so-publicly available data and those phone numbers become powerful unique identifiers through which I can learn just about everything about you, your family, your friends, colleagues, occupation, hobbies, history and more.<p>There's nothing innocent or insignificant about "just collecting phone numbers".