The corporate/state surveillance partnership explains why the state can get so much information about nearly everyone.

It is a shame that the article starts with defeatist statements: "We all carry mobile phones", "We notify Facebook". Not everyone does these things: some of us refuse, as resistance to surveillance. It is not impossible.

The measures proposed in the article are not enough. If data is collected, it will be misused. We must force companies to redesign systems so that they don't keep much data about anyone, except when a court order requires them to keep data about someone in particular.

Another aspect of the corporate/state surveillance partnership permits corporate misuse of the data that is collected for the state.

The cyber-attack against Tor users may be due to some other agency rather than the NSA.

Bahrain has banned all protests. The repression of the government of Bahrain is supported by the US and US allies sent forces to impose the crackdown.

US citizens: tell Congress to pass the Save America's Pollinators Act.

In Sri Lanka, the army attacked journalists who were covering environmental protests.