>>Given the pathetic response I'm observing by the general public, add in the courts eager willingness to sacrifice Constitutional guarantees and combined with the call-em nutso knee-jerk political response to anyone who is publically critical of the new USSA(United Surveillance States of America (tm) patent pending ;) ) I'm inclined to believe that the powers that be may have underestimated their ability to invade our lives.
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>>It's perfectly acceptable to track our movements, listen to our calls, gather everything about us that's in electronic form from our joke emails to our health history. We'll allow them to archive it all and not worry about security or distribution. Just as long as you don't try to limit our Big Gulps.
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>And then there is this...
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>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_stillman
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>I've heard stories over the years about individual cases, but had no idea it had become so institutionalized.

If you heard about it over the years then it is already 'old news', just like NSA spying on entire world. If it is 'old news' then it half way through twds being 'ok'.
Maybe not totally '_ok_' but certainly not 'big deal' (right?). Give it few more years and it will be definitely 'non issue', perfectly 'OK', potentially even cool.

Why care about something you cannot change? Only conspiracy nutters/truthers/birthers/haters/others do that!
Proper reaction of every proper citizen should be: 'What's neeeeexxtt ?' , ' Bring it on !! ' ;))