The purpose of the web-page is to illustrate how much information you can get about a person with just meta-data.
The law should be a reflection of our morals, not the other way around. That would be a recipe for disaster.
The law should be a reflection of our morals, not the other way around. That would be a recipe for disaster.
Moreover, the problem for privacy advocates is that the moral debate is even less clear than the legal one. Being able to declare the NSA's actions straight-up unconstitutional under the 4th amendment would avoid the mess of resorting to the democratic process to determine what the people, as a whole, really thought about surveillance.