Coms 205 tutorial, surviellance: positive or negative

This was a really great tut, just because i am doing my essay on surviellance and i had a bit of back round knowledge and research that i had done, there proved to be many talking points and points of view!I never realised how much surviellance is in the world, but when we discussed different aspects of it, it kind of gives u a reality check. I think our generation has somewhat grown up in a survillance generation and we are used to it, and most importantly we are aware.....of most of it. I bought up the point as to why ECHELON cannot capture osama bin laden but they are able to moniter other criminals, is ECHELON as good as we think. I think the concept of it is great because no one knows keywords they monitor etc, so we are really all left in the dark. For my essay tho i have tried to come up with alternatives to surviellance on the internet. as i said i think ECHELON is a good idea but i think we need something like a worldwide agreement that states clear outlines as to what can and cant be done, but i also think it needs a sense of mysteriousness about it, eg no one knowing keywords they moniter etc. it will be an extrememly hard contract for everyone to agree to but there really seems no other way, unless surviellance is done without anyone really knowing. But that would make me angry and would fall in the category of unacceptable surviellance.