‘Parks and Recreation’ takes on online privacy. And it hits close to home.

Leslie Knope, the plucky public servant at the center of the NBC comedy "Parks and Recreation," just finished battling a data-mining tech company. But even though the current season is set in the near future of 2017, the show reflects the online privacy debate already happening today.

Leslie and her husband Ben are the moral and ethical centers of the show -- and the fact that they get the often self-undermining residents of their town to generally agree that Gryzzl, a fictionalized giant tech company, has gone too far is a testament to just how much the debate over online privacy has penetrated public consciousness.