This is sad. As a US citizen, I have no idea how to even begin fighting crap like this.
The issue is the EFF and ACLU aren't going to be able to get sweeping legislative changes themselves. We, the constituency, need to be very vocal action as well.
I just feel ignored and dismissed by my Congress Critters.
I mean, they would probably still have cleared me if they had access to the full story, I'm not that much of a deviant. But take the board game nights as an example. A few of my friends smoke weed at those, and even though I haven't done that for 10 years, it's not something I'd want to be associated with on a social media site that a government trawls, so I make sure to keep that part out of the pictures.
On the other hand if you lack these things that everyone is expected to have, they become suspicious.
At one point I figured that I might need it to seem normal sometime in the future.
Traveling to the US last year I'm glad I did, passed through the border checkup much easier than my other privacy loving friends who deleted thei social media accounts.
I also kept my gmail address even though I moved to fastmail. Mostly use it for signing up to things and unimportant stuff, but it sure was handy at the airport.
I guess it still exposes some of my life, but it's not like I can ever become anonymous again, since they never delete anything.