Freedom Box
It's hard to see freedom and its ally of privacy disappearing, until they're gone. Nice software project underway to get it back using off the shelf hardware.
To play the CBS News story, click the next link: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7358702n
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2011/08/24/Taking-Control-of-User-Data.aspx
http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
Original outing of the idea, 57 minute lecture, http://www.law.columbia.edu/magazine/interactive/5848/view-more-professor-eben-moglens-2010-internet-society-speech