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Innocent Or Not, the NSA Is Watching You
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Wired: "Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world's communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails — parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter.' It is, in some measure, the realization of the 'total information awareness' program created during the first term of the Bush administration — an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans' privacy."
I find you guilty of terrible grammar.
It is know, not "no". Send him to the gallows!
It's my keyboards fault! I sear it is! My 'k' and 'w' keys ere stolen.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Oops. My apostrophe doesnt seem to be orking either.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
At least I don't have to back up my data anymore. Restoring it might be a problem...
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
Oh, you're so getting on the NSA's list for that.
If the Founding Fathers had meant to protect your email from search and seizure, they would have had Ben Franklin invent the OSI 7 layer model and SMTP and then mentioned them in the Fourth Amendment!
OK, NSA. Which finger am I holding up?
Have gnu, will travel.
Can't use national resources like this to monitor us citizens within the us borders. It's against the law.
Actually, the US cannot use allies' intelligence capabilities as a vehicle to sidestep its own laws and directives prohibiting surveillance of US Persons without a warrant. I know some people believe that this is what is happening, but that is neither the purpose nor intent of intelligence sharing between the US and its allies.