The revelations about abusive, prima facie unconstitutional behavior by the United States government is massively important. The more information that the we as the public have on the irreparable harm that has been done to us, the more effective we can be pressuring Congress to change misguided policies.

And more directly, the business and technical work we can all do to mitigate the risks. This is too important to let slide.

To put another way, deprivation of rights under the color of authority is a really, really big deal. We should not let it slip away into obscurity!