>>Data points included : owner’s name, address, Social Security number, all credit card and other loan information and account balances, entire credit history, including delinquent payments, late payments, minimum payments, high account balances and credit scores. “Household demographic data,” including racial and ethnic data, gender, marital status, religion, education, employment history, military status, household composition, the number of wage earners and a family’s total wealth and assets.
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>>That really is scary stuff. It has to be unconstitutional. What can we do about it?
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>Stop electing asshats who think the Constitution is "living". Elect representatives who will not only uphold the Constitution, but who are not afraid to seek criminal prosecution of those who have violated their oaths. Elect a president who will appoint and a Senate that will confirm, judges who will view cases before them with a sound Constitutional eye and not re-write laws from the bench. Elect school boards who will replace the garbage that passes for a history curriculum with a return to teaching the founding principals of the country.
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>There are many other steps, but seeing that the country is SO far gone that it collectively shrugs off the revelations about the NSA and now seemingly accepts any and all intrusion into our private lives be it google or drone or IRS or military armed cattle rustlers or orwellian databases with every single aspect of our lives I view it as a virtual impossibility.
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>So instead, I suggest you give up all hope and enjoy life while joy is still allowed. ;)

I am just waiting for the lights to go out in New York City....