Its unfortunate that when I go back home, the general sentiment about spying is "Well I don't have anything to hide, so what do I care?" Most people don't gras

Its unfortunate that when I go back home, the general sentiment about spying is "Well I don't have anything to hide, so what do I care?" Most people don't grasp the long history of abuse law enforcement agencies have against important social movements -- Wiretapping MLK by the FBI for the express purpose of making threats based on personal information is the clearest example that comes to mind. Private industry is starting to have a better track record than government in this space (I have known of individuals to be immediately terminated when they were found to have accessed un-anonimized data without an explicit, justifiable, and approved reason). Where as unlawful wiretapping with the intent to intimidate, blackmail, and generally 'keep an eye on things' is an accepted government practice.