Ultimately the US needs a sustainable system where the people elected to power aren't bound by financial need which in-turn forces them to pass and enforce laws that aren't good for the greater purpose of the people. But while we're at it, I'd like a pony.
I'm in Canada, and we are in the same cycle of 'interpretation'. As with any major country we need to get back to the foundations and simplicity of our core laws that both protect the innocent and judge fairly on the guilty or suspicious.
In respect to transparency, we need a set of global laws that protect the users of systems based in foreign countries. If Canada had strict privacy laws, I would hope that I would be protected by those laws even if I'm using a service based in the US.
