> somebody like Snowden gets elected President It's hard to predict what exact conditions would be required to make a difference, but a privacy/security-aware

> somebody like Snowden gets elected President It's hard to predict what exact conditions would be required to make a difference, but a privacy/security-aware President is not sufficient. We need a more educated population and congressional representatives (and perhaps supreme court) far more than the presidency. We are headed for something bad with the cavalier way we treat data, the only real question is how terrible the consequences will be when it happens.