In Light of American Surveillance, European Union Legal Decision to Protect Europeans'

[JDPriestly]

2. Thanks for posting. I somehow missed your post -- may have been out of town or busy.

As you can see, this is not a topic getting a lot of attention in the US.

The NSA's overly broad program is self-defeating in my opinion because it infringes on basic rights. Tracking the finances of individuals or groups known to have committed terrorist (depending on how you define that, and in my view the Patriot Act does not define it clearly enough) is legitimate. But tracking the finances of everyone -- not so legitimate -- it reaches too far and is a waste of resources.

Anyway, as for waking people up to the problems inherent in massive surveillance even if mostly of statistics and trends is important enough to warrant some persistence.

We''ll just have to keep trying.

Thanks.