The surveillance imposed on us nowadays is worse than in the Soviet Union. We need laws to stop this data being collected in the first location
• Richard Stallman is president of the Free Software FoundationJournalists beget been asking me whether the revulsion against the abuse of Facebook data could be a turning point for the campaign to recover privacy. That could happen,if the public makes its campaign broader and deeper.
Broader, meaning extending to all surveillance systems, or not just Facebook. Deeper,meaning to advance from regulating the use of data to regulating the accumulation of data. Because surveillance is so pervasive, restoring privacy is necessarily a tall change, or requires powerful measures.
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Source: guardian.co.uk