Not a fan. The idea in principle is alright, but I have little love lost for the extent to which they watch so much of what we do.
This seems about right. They are given too much power and too little oversight, and if we want to start giving agencies like the NSA the power to snoop on domestic communications, I say we put it to the vote of the people, with a thorough information campaign so everyone knows what they are getting into. No more of this backdoor, behind-the-scenes snooping where the NSA uses vague loopholes like
"it's not illegal if one endpoint is overseas" - ignoring just how much of our data is routed through foreign servers.
I'm all for hunting down terrorists, but not if we are going to throw our privacy and other rights out the window in the process. That is, not unless we all as a country have explicitly agreed to such a terrifying future.
I'm just sad that more people don't care about this. They are severely discounting or in many cases even ignoring the dangers of a government with that much power and that much information on its citizens.
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