I'm not sure mass surveillance is necessarily evil, but it certainly is something we should fight against. It seems to me that there are essentially four routes

I'm not sure mass surveillance is necessarily evil, but it certainly is something we should fight against. It seems to me that there are essentially four routes we can take: a) The legal route - donate to EFF and friend https://www.eff.org/ https://www.eff.org/ - and hope that in 8-10 years it takes this thing to get through the courts, all this will be found illegal. b) The legislative route - stage protests, pour money into congressional and presidential candidates who believe privacy is a right, fund lobbyists, find candidates that believe in privacy and push them to run, punish officials with expensive reelection campaigns for those who don't. c) The encryption route - make encryption easier to use, push forward stronger minimum encryption standards, push for IPv6 (mandatory IPsec support), push for an end-to-end encryption standard for HTML with encryption/decryption done by the browser for elements on a page/posted content (for things like webmail), constant vigilance against vendor-introduced security weaknesses, etc. d) The disinformation route - flood the internet with enough noise that it becomes cost prohibitive and technically unfeasible to have any confidence in the results coming out of any big data analytics system monitoring internet communications. . Now, the encryption route seems to be what people around here generally focus on since it is a technical solution to the problem and most of us are technical people. It unfortunately is also the most difficult since it requires end-user participation and trust in everyone from your OS vendor to your CPU vendor. The disinformation route is also a technical solution, but it can be carried out by a much smaller group of people though some of us might have issue with effectively spamming the internet and in order to create the right kind of disinformation, you have to know what they're looking for in the first place and the resources to fake interactions that looks similar. The legal route is something we can all do. It is slow, but donating money to lawyers is relatively painless for most of us. The legislative route requires organization and mass participation. So far, people aren't angry really enough about it to do anything. There is no charismatic leader leading the charge. As far as I know, there isn't even a PAC we could donate to that would fight the good fight.