Thorough legislation, not abolition (Score 1)

I think this 100% privacy protection movement is wasting their time by opposing such systems and on the contrary causing more harm than good. In the end the information on our lives resides already somewhere, be it more distributed.

Instead of shouting constantly "No!" to every system which in principle is meant to defend our lives, freedom, hence our very privacy as well,
we should instead demand thorough legislation so these databases would not be abused.

I think this protection of our privacy in anti-terrorism databases is worth an addition to our respective constitutions (indeed, it is not only the USA which is facing privacy dilemma - it is the entire free world!) of the caliber of an Amendement at least.

Do not forget, democracy is the best of all available political systems but it is also the most cowardous system when it comes to threats which would cost a lot of sacrifice to solve physically, as terrorism is.