That is a great idea! Personally the only organization I would trust at this point would be the Free Software Foundation. They are a nonprofit organization wit

That is a great idea! Personally the only organization I would trust at this point would be the Free Software Foundation. They are a nonprofit organization with a long history of supporting user rights. In fact, if everyone were to use the GPL and/or Affero licenses for their software, the source code would be auditable. That would alleviate half of my concerns as I could tell what information would be available to them. All that would be left is my concern about what is done with my personal information after collection. If an organization which I trust were to issue certification which conveys assurances as to what does or doesn't happen to my data, I might be ok with that even without access to specific details. I don't think the big guys would sign up for this without incentive. That's the main reason I think a law would be the best way. In order to make this happen, a boycott could be organized. Participation would need to be easy so we could facilitate it with a custom build of Firefox (or similar) which will only allow you to visit sites certified to respect users privacy.