It would be fun if "internet detectives" (think 4chan) have a look at the profiles of people with "nothing to hide" and expose all their dirty secrets (affairs, comments that could be taken as racist, tax avoidance, listening to Bieber, gossiping about coworkers, naked pics or sex chats they made with their partners, whatever) to the internets.
Especially nice it would be if that would get them fired (e.g a negative comment about their company boss in an email to a friend).
That might illuminate them about the value of privacy.
That said, they are not the targets of NSA, because they are useless to society anyway (they are not active citizens), and not a threat to any government.
But any activist, dissident, whistleblower, investigative journalist, hacker, writer, progressive politician etc, people that move society and laws forward, people from MLK to Aaron Swartz to Phil Zimmerman, are those that can and will be targeted by such measures. The same kind of people that today's J.E. Hoover's would target.
Especially nice it would be if that would get them fired (e.g a negative comment about their company boss in an email to a friend).
That might illuminate them about the value of privacy.
That said, they are not the targets of NSA, because they are useless to society anyway (they are not active citizens), and not a threat to any government.
But any activist, dissident, whistleblower, investigative journalist, hacker, writer, progressive politician etc, people that move society and laws forward, people from MLK to Aaron Swartz to Phil Zimmerman, are those that can and will be targeted by such measures. The same kind of people that today's J.E. Hoover's would target.