[SE Mom]

I believe we were told we are being spied on TO PREVENT TERRORIST ATTACKS.

It appears we have been deceived AGAIN.

[Black Agnes]

Just think. Last week these same companies told us they’d never heard of such a thing.

[Westbrook]

Use Linux.

It’s free.

And (mostly) unhackable. You can make Linux very, very secure. There is no “mothership” and no “back door”, unless you physically have the system.

The only exception to this is Linux variant “Android”. I despise Google for a number of reasons, but I despise them most for building a phishing expedition and government spying apparatus on top of a Linux kernel.

[darkwing104]

[SE Mom]

It would seem these spying programs are being used by law enforcement all across the country.

[Gaffer]

And Facebook’s Icon Zuckerberg is sponsoring millions and millions of dollars in DoppleConservative ads to instantiate amnesty for ILLEGAL ALIENS.

Let’s see.....ummmm lobby hard to get 50-100 million illegals and familial entourage here while simultaneously providing the plethora of personal data for real citizens here.

It’s akin to the Capos carting, burning, burying the bodies in WWIIs German death camps (to be soon rededicated as Obama’s AmeriKa Kamps).

It is hard to see from my viewpoint why on the earth anyone would be remotely associated or use Facebook.

[cripplecreek]

I think we’re being spied on to prevent conservatives from ever having political power.

[Travis McGee]

It's a fair guess that my communications are under surveillance.

Screw them all. When defending the Constitution becomes a subversive act, I'm a subversive.

[PghBaldy]

Couldn’t Facebook say how many State and local orders they’ve received? How can the Feds ban them from telling that?

[Irenic]

Old one but remember this one?

Did Skype Give a Private Company Data on Teen WikiLeaks Supporter Without a Warrant?

By Ryan Gallagher

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Posted Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at 4:30 PM

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/11/09/skype_gave_data_on_a_teen_wikileaks_supporter_to_a_private_company_without.html

[G Larry]

What’s Microsoft’s role in this?

Does their OS provide paths and access?

[Grampa Dave]

"I believe we were told we are being spied on TO PREVENT TERRORIST ATTACKS."

So Why Didn't NSA Catch The Tsarnaev Brothers?

[TurboZamboni]

“I don’t have to listen to your phone calls to know what you’re doing. If I know every single phone call you’ve made, I’m able to determine every single person you talk to; I can get a pattern about your life that is very, very intrusive. The real question here is what do they do with this information that they collect that does not have anything to do with al-Qa’ida? ... But this idea that ... we’re going to trust the president and vice president of the United States that we’re doing the right thing — don’t count me in on that.” —then-Senator Joe Biden in 2006