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Doesn't this contradict the claim that there hasn't been a single case of the NSA "deliberately or illegally intruding on the privacy of Americans"?

To quote from an early paragraph:

The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

Beyond supporting organisations like the EFF financially, signing petitions and generally trying to raise awareness, what can people do if they want to get more involved, or really make a difference?

What do you think it would take for organisations like the NSA to really give up the power that progams like PRISM seem to afford it? Do you think the attention that has been focused on this program will just cause it to be rehashed into some similarly capable alterntive or is there a real prospect to stopping this?

It seems that each new government is just granting the NSA more power and the construction of this new data centre in Utah seems to suggest that this is just the start of things to come. The future seems to look bleak for privacy and an open internet.