Information Consumerism: The Price of Hypocrisy

We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.<p>This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.<p><a href="http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;snowdenandthefuture.info&#x2F;events.html</a><p><a href="http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-thought-requires-free-media" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;benjamin.sonntag.fr&#x2F;Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...</a>

The most striking thing about this article is probably the main image. It almost perfectly captures implicitly all of the outrage of the tech community over the NSA dragnet. All the hypocrisy in one neat picture.

IANAL but I know plenty:<p>US jurisprudence has a primary flaw when comes to privacy: individuals have no rights to most of their own data. Once it is &quot;out there,&quot; it&#x27;s available to be bought and sold without much limitation. A friend is working on a paper in this area to find a way out of this quagmire, but I think it will take a great outrage (ie a heinous crime) to make any progress.