Comment by tzs
8 years ago
Your approach starts off by making the very politicians that you want to help you extremely pissed off at you.
More effective would be to track a few key politicians, such as those on the committees that would deal with regulating these things, and also a few reporters who have agreed beforehand to participate.
Then the tracking on the politicians is turned over to the politicians, but NOT made public. The reporters write stories about this, illustrating the tracking detail by publishing what it showed about them.
This approach gets the news out to the public, personally shows the key politicians the scope of the issue (and that they are vulnerable too), and lets the public know that the politicians have seen proof of how serious the issue is so that the politicians know that they need to get to work on this because their opponents come the next election will certainly be gearing up to use it as an issue if they do not.
Expose's by investigative Journalists have often made politicians angry, but they have also effected change.
My idea is based on the fact that in my experience people rarely really care about privacy until it personally affects them.
Note for example Feinstein's reactions to domestic spying generally, and then spying on her specifically.