This reminds me of what many popular websites did during the SOPA and PIPA discussion. Though most sites simply displayed some mock warning or announcement stating "This is what you could see if SOPA was passed".
Instead of or in addition to fighting NSA surveillance operations and requests I wonder if sites could instead display a message or page detailing what the NSA would be provided with if they ever came asking for your information.
records maintained on your account:
search: "Funny pictures of cats"
IP: 192.168.0.1
account: johndoe5555@provider.com
date: 01/01/2013 12:00:00.000
referrer: www.example.com
That's a clever idea, but I think that most users would be disconcerted by the sheer amount of information that's collected by most web sites already. It would raise the question, "why do you need to collect all that?" before anything else. Which is a good question to be sure, but probably not the one that most companies want to be answering.
You're probably right about the web site getting the wrong kind of attention from this. I can almost see a government organization doing this instead, either as a public service or after some open information law is passed in reaction to public opinion on NSA surveillance.
The U.S. government might just be bureaucratic and fractured enough.
Instead of or in addition to fighting NSA surveillance operations and requests I wonder if sites could instead display a message or page detailing what the NSA would be provided with if they ever came asking for your information.
records maintained on your account: search: "Funny pictures of cats" IP: 192.168.0.1 account: johndoe5555@provider.com date: 01/01/2013 12:00:00.000 referrer: www.example.com
etc . . .