Privacy

Johnathon Turley usually says it straight, true and simply.  He does it again here:

Privacy (either more or less privacy) that benefits us, the general population, in any way from simple marketing to serious crime is the last thing that the "new privacy" does.  It principally benefits special interest sectors and segments.  Those sectors have the money and position to create and implement their privacy objectives.  The public has no institution nor funding to combat special interest privacy objectives.  Courts defense of privacy is of little consequence.

Privacy of information is a complex matter.  A technological challenge.  The public will always be behind the curve here, especially since Privacy goes hand in hand with Secrecy.

Washingtonspost talks about surveillance here. 

The Government/Industrial Complex is old school.  The new age way to control government and benefit financially from fears for our security is the Government/Information complex.  Security hardware has reach a peak.  Like peak oil.  In both quality/capability and quantity we have reached a peak.  The quantity peak is past.  Great fleets of aircraft and ships are no longer needed.  Planes and ships can now be built with technological abilities far beyond defense needs.  There is no end to the development of information technology in defense of the country.  No evident result in spending a great amount of money to buy information ability either.  There is no Jane's Fighting Ships inventory record for the technological world.  No parade of troops and weapons to watch graphically demonstrate awesome investment and capability.  On the contrary, awesome investment in information is something to protect with secrecy.  Information capability of means and methods are not something to publicly parade to wow us with might.