[muawiyah]

You just don't know how big those companies are and how they interchange data ~ part of the business plan they have.

Then some of our larger states that REGULATE those common carriers (mostly to collect taxes on cable, wires and telephone poles) CONSOLIDATE the data from all of them.

Big gub'mnt is even a problem at the state level.

FIX the problem at the root ~ then you won't need to waste $45 billion a year on an otherwise useless federal agency.

[dirtboy]

I understand corporate databases just fine, I am a database professional for a living.

I do not fear corporate data as corporations cannot put me into prison or audit me.

I fear what the NSA can do with the data they have gathered.

You have done everything but condemn the NSA. You have presented bastardized, Orwellian interpreations of the 4th Amendment. In other words, you are a tool of the statists. And the worst part is, you do it willingly. You're too big a fool for anyone to pay you to write this jibberish.

[Jim Robinson]

Recognize it for what it is. A gross criminal violation of the constitution and crime against all Americans and shut the fricken thing down! And jail the perpetrators including Obama and his jackbooted fascist henchmen (his cabinet)!!