Today, when I bring the Snowden revelations up with my family they say, "well duh, everybody knew that for many years" To be fair, here's a Slashdot story from

Today, when I bring the Snowden revelations up with my family they say, "well duh, everybody knew that for many years" To be fair, here's a Slashdot story from '98 mentioning Echelon: http://it.slashdot.org/story/98/09/30/1429227/investigating-echelon http://it.slashdot.org/story/98/09/30/1429227/investigating-... I think the wider problem you're coming up against is that hardly anyone cares.