Indeed, check out the number of lawsuits filed by major privacy organizations before Snowden's first disclosures on June 5, 2013: http://projects.propublica.or

Indeed, check out the number of lawsuits filed by major privacy organizations before Snowden's first disclosures on June 5, 2013: http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/surveillance-suits http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/surveillance-suits One of the biggest changes from the disclosures is not that these suits suddenly became mainstream, it's that they finally had a decent chance of showing they had standing to sue in the first place.