The other bad-guys

The story broke just this week, and we've already forgotten about who collected our domestic calling records for the NSA. We've all got our eyes fixed on Michael Hayden and a corrupt administration--and for good reason--but we can't forget their other half. Big corporations were collecting this information, and they'll keep doing it. Personal customer information is an asset in industries like insurance, communications, and banking, and this administration lets them keep it and use it because they can't collect information like this and they want it too.

We can pass laws to protect personal information, but there will always be a new back door we're missing. If it's privacy we want, we've got to start limiting the personal information that gets kept by companies who have no interest in protecting us from the government or ID theft.