User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-29117514-20140205044242

 The biggest problem with the mass gathering of data is that it targets all the wrong people. Its not hard to hide everything you do on the web from prying eyes and those who are attempting to harm usually do so. An excellent example of completely hiding your identity are the many hackers groups out there. They rarely ever get caught for hacking, but are often indicted for other crimes or they reveal their identity.  Check into how https works, its essentially guaranteed privacy for data transmission. Here is an excellent site on the topic:https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm  The NSA calls the  increasing use of https "Going Dark" as Internet traffic they could previously intercept is now gibberish. There is also the infamous tor browser witch makes use of onion encryption, layer upon layer of encryption with routing through a random series of thousands of proxies, it is the king of Internet privacy.  The real problem now for those of us who like our privacy is securing our computers as its pretty easy to get the data before it leaves your computer simply by making use of security holes in Operating Systems. There are much better papers on the topic, but here is a quick reference that covers some of it:http://cryptome.org/2013/12/Full-Disclosure.pdf