No Upper Bound On Phone Record Collection, Says NSA

PCWorld reports that "[A] U.S. surveillance court has given the National Security Agency no limit on the number of U.S. telephone records it collects in the name of fighting terrorism, the NSA director said Thursday. The NSA intends to collect all U.S. telephone records and put them in a searchable 'lock box' in the interest of national security, General Keith Alexander, the NSA's director, told U.S. senators." But don't worry; it's just metadata, until it isn't. (Your row in the NSA database may already be getting cozy in its nice new home in Utah.)

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Stupid Republicans

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

So Ted Cruz just fauxilibustered for like 24 hours trying to convince us that Obamacare is Nazism on steroids. If he had any sense of strategy he would have been pointing at the NSA and saying that they are going to slurp up every bit of medical data that Obamacare creates, that the NSA is going to have your most intimate medical details on file at their fingertips.

Even if you don't tell anyone that you've got herpes the NSA will know it. They will know when you are pregnant, when you miscarry, when you decide to have an abortion because your fetus tests positive for down syndrome. They will know the results of any DNA parentage tests even when you don't tell your own family.

Re:National Paranoia, not National Security

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Quite a few Americans are terrorists. They are called Tea Party members or NSA employees.

I think the Tea Party are mostly toolbags, but fuck you. Seriously, fuck you. That kind of hyperbole only serves to pull focus from the problem of the NSA - assholes like you are aiding the NSA, not fighting them.