Edward Snowden was a featured speaker last month at both TED and SXSW, he teleconferenced in. From his talks, Wired came up with a list of ten things that can be done to improve security and privacy of our information. It's a pretty good list, but not one that the individual can do much with, it's pretty much entirely dependent on being implemented by ISPs and web sites and engineers. Still, it's not a bad start.
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/wishlist/
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/wishlist/