A concrete step that Congress could take is to publicly fund privacy technology. This is a classic public good that government is ideally situated to subsidize.

A concrete step that Congress could take is to publicly fund privacy technology. This is a classic public good that government is ideally situated to subsidize. Unfortunately this technology would conflict with numerous mandates relating to government data collection for national security (e.g. National Security Letters requiring email servers that provide tools for client side encryption of emails to place a backdoor in their software) and taxation purposes.