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You'll have to start by convincing the electorate that collecting all the data "just in case" is a bad thing. "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is a belief people actually hold about aggregation of private data.

I just wish I knew how to do that.

Unfortunately the best way may be through spreading FUD: Get people to believe that government employees are perving over pictures of their children, and attitudes will change very quickly.

Ummm, it looks like they already are, sort of:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/07/17/nsa-respo...

The NSA's response is basically a non-response.

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