Do Americans truly believe that the agencies tasked with the huge job of preventing another terrorist attack on this country really spend their time siftng through the average citizen’s emails and phone calls? I’d be glad to give them mine if they need something for insomnia.
Seriously, I think we are in more danger from hackers than intelligence gathering agencies. Every detail of our lives is on some kind of data base, our medical records, banking records, phone calls, google searches, and emails. If we’re worried about Privacy, that ship has sailed with the advent of the computer age.
“Do Americans truly believe that the agencies tasked with the huge job of preventing another terrorist attack on this country really spend their time siftng through the average citizen’s emails and phone calls? I’d be glad to give them mine if they need something for insomnia.”
You are a fool. They collect it all. They will use it against you as soon as they want to. Any comment you made, any site you visited any number you called over decades will be available for them to infer charges against you and make a one-sided case against you. It will be used anytime you are deemed an enemy of the state to fabricate a case for your crimes.
“Seriously, I think we are in more danger from hackers than intelligence gathering agencies.”
Intelligence agencies are now the most egregious hackers. Are you reading and paying attention?
Do you have curtains in your home? Why? Do you have something to hide?
Any violation of being secure in our persons and property is a strike against our Constitution.
[ Do Americans truly believe that the agencies tasked with the huge job of preventing another terrorist attack on this country really spend their time siftng through the average citizen’s emails and phone calls? I’d be glad to give them mine if they need something for insomnia.
Seriously, I think we are in more danger from hackers than intelligence gathering agencies. Every detail of our lives is on some kind of data base, our medical records, banking records, phone calls, google searches, and emails. If we’re worried about Privacy, that ship has sailed with the advent of the computer age. ]
That all depends on whom in government you have/have not pissed off and what groups you are a member of, who have or have not pissed off the wrong people in government, see: tea party groups, see: IRS, see: Lois Lerner
Ah yes, the classic “I have nothing to hide” mindset.
Sure, you’re not interesting to them.
Until they decide a “terrorist” includes indicators YOU exhibit: conservative, frequent right-wing websites (FR), whatever descriptors tend to pigeonhole you for what you consider yourself as. Then, suddenly, they’ve got this 10+ year dossier on you exhibiting assorted anti-government anti-whatever pro-extremist characteristics, at which point they...well...take a look at history and see what happens to “normal” people who suddenly are disfavored by those in power.
Remember when being Christian/pro-life/straight-marriage/self-sufficient/patriotic/etc was the epitome of upstanding citizenship? now seems it’s code words for “them” heading toward grounds for incarceration & re-education.
Sure, lots of your information is well-known and well-recorded. Our government should, pursuant to facilitating the 4th Amendment, be encouraging those businesses to keep that information well-encrypted and unavailable to unwarranted search.
Man you are willing to bend on this one you are willing to bend on all.
Did you listen to any of the filibuster last night? Chilling to say the least. Substituting prying laws for worse prying laws because of Snowden dump. Paying Google, Yahoo, and now cellular (not just land lines) companies for your meta data.
Billions of dollars lost to US businesses because of NSA spying on other COUNTRIES not TERRORISTS. These are jobs lost to US Citizens in these billions of dollars lost and allies lost to NSA spying.
American companies run out of countries, Brazil for one have developed their own mail application in place of Microsoft because of the NSA plugins to Microsoft.
The NSA is an overgrown bloated Government organization breaking constitutional laws. It thinks itself above all laws.
To the FERAL Government, stay out of my house, stay out of my bedroom, stay the hell out of my gun safe and stay the hell out of my data stream.
Do Americans truly believe that the agency tasked with the huge job of collecting trillions of dollars of tax revenue
really spends its time picking and choosing who to investigate based on political opinion?