> I love the idea of having my own surveillance drone.
That's the point. Everybody loves to do surveillance but nobody wants to be the potential target. See the issue here?
What I'm saying is: Should society decide to want to abandon privacy, then it must be in a symmetric and very controlled manner. Everybody must then have the same degree of transparency over anybody else. Asymmetric transparency relationships are not ethic and very unhealthy for the stability of society, mid- long-term at least.
But one should not. "Terrorism", for the tiny, tiny little bit that happens in our country, was not here before.
Let's just switch to a sane foreign policy and be done with "terrorism". At least mid- and long-term, that's the only thing that will stop the recruiting of new "terrorists".
The lesson IMO is to rebuild the whole political system, on a foundation made of sane rules. (And that should obviously include all government agencies, especially those which have been corrupting democracy for a few decades now.)
EDIT: Don't forget that one of the earlier whistle blowers said (a few months back) that Obama had been put under surveillance by the NSA as well [0], which means
a) you should expect him to have been vetted by the powers in place before being admitted as a presidential candidate by that 1 of the 2 parties available,
b) "they" have stuff on him and can handle him like a puppet that he seems to have become.
Ergo, it's not about which puppet you elect, it's about the system.
EDIT 4: Even having set about:config -> browser.cache.disk.enable -> false, I have to close/open the browser twice in order for the cache (and tracking) to disappear.