One key law, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), is 25 years-old and increasingly ineffective when it comes to protecting our core values that are enshrined in our foundation laws, like the 4th Amendment, from the onslaught of temptations flowing from technology now widely available.
For example, an icon similar to the SSL encryption key-prevalent in e-commerce transactions-may pop up to indicate that a site matches a user's privacy tolerance level.