&gt; somebody like Snowden gets elected President<p>It&#x27;s hard to predict what exact conditions would be required to make a difference, but a privacy&#x2F;security-aware President is not sufficient. We need a more educated population and congressional representatives (and perhaps supreme court) far more than the presidency.<p>We are headed for something bad with the cavalier way we treat data, the only real question is how terrible the consequences will be when it happens.