US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program
Well, what concerns me most here is this: The US Government is in a spot wrt US citizens and US homeland, blanket surveillance on the rest of the world seems fair game. 
Sure, the law would not protect the 'aliens'. Concerned citizens should look at being aware of alternative tools that would minimize possibility of the US Gov eavesdropping, inadvertently or otherwise. Perhaps a system of opensource OSs, TOR logins and specially crafted logins, on pre-identified low risk networks. thoughts?