> "This is a big move forward, and will catalyze a great deal of change as court rulings can sometimes move faster than legislation." Please let's not confuse

> "This is a big move forward, and will catalyze a great deal of change as court rulings can sometimes move faster than legislation." Please let's not confuse the responsibilities of the courts and the responsibilities of the legislature. They're different for very good reason. There's little to legislate here, anyway. What Snowden's revelations are targeted to doing is bringing the Government's actual behavior in line with the law, (in this case the 4th amendment of the Constitution). That's strictly the purview of the courts. The bits that will require legislation (like "Data collected by the GCHQ on Americans should be treated the same as if it were collected on american soil") are loopholes in the wording of the law that the Government has exploited to do whatever it wanted to do. Closing technical loopholes like that may require legislation.