Spooky: How NSA's Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life

SmartAboutThings writes "A quite scary talk show with former NSA employees — now whistle blowers — Thomas Drake, Kirk Wiebe, and William Binney reveals that the NSA has algorithms that go through data gathered about us and they can basically 'see into our lives.' And this seems to be going on especially since the Patriot Act has removed the statutory requirement that the government prove a surveillance target under FISA is a non-U.S. citizen and agent of a foreign power." Binney's HOPE keynote has more detail on how the NSA watches people.

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Re:I know I'm safe

[dpilot]

Actually, make it hard enough, and perhaps they SHOULD go after you, first. After all, by taking all of those steps to protect your privacy, it proves more than ever that you have something to hide! Some idiot who browses with no protections isn't smart enough to hatch an effective terrorist plot. Someone who takes all of the appropriate step is. Someone who takes all of the appropriate steps, and knows how to hide the fact that those steps were taken, is even scarier.

(Don't know if this is sarcasm or sad.)