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Snowden Documents: CSE Tracks Millions of Downloads Daily
Advocatus Diaboli writes Canada's electronic spy agency sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, as part of a sweeping bid to find extremist plots and suspects, CBC News has learned. Details of the Communications Security Establishment project dubbed 'Levitation' are revealed in a document obtained by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and recently released to CBC News. Under Levitation, analysts with the electronic eavesdropping service can access information on about 10 to 15 million uploads and downloads of files from free websites each day, the document says.
How USA of them
Table-ized A.I.
One mentally ill man with a gun and delusions of grandeur does not a terrorist make.
Quit trying to play the partisan card bullshit. Cons have a majority, therefore they take responsibility for it happening now.
Dear Sir,
I may have been thinking too much. In fact, you may even say that I am paranoid - but at the stage that we are in today, that the blanket snooping activities into almost everything that we do online and off, we do need to question why the authority's need to do it, rather than accept what they are telling us by default
Yes, they tell us they are 'looking for terrorists' but is that true?
I mean, if they are 'looking for terrorists' the obvious target for those 'terrorists' are those from a particular religion (that peaceful one, to boot)
But is the authority looking into that group only?
Far from that. They are snooping in on ALL OF US, on our email, on our surfing pattern, on the site we go to, on what we download, on our phone conversation, on everything everybody is doing
Then why are they doing it?
Surely the 'looking for terrorists' excuse ain't gonna cut it no more, there gotta be more than what they are telling us
Yes, I am paranoid, I admit it. But you can't blame me from being paranoid
I am from China, a country which is being ruled by some really despicable regime. At the point when I left China the entire society was in turmoil. People were being pulled out on to the street and beaten, sometimes killed, just because they were labeled as 'anti-revolutionary'
I have had that kind of experiences. Most of you do not. I know what the authority is capable of doing, and what they will do to maintain their control over us, the peons
The more I look at what's happening in the so-called "Western countries" the more it resembles that despicable regime that is controlling China
Yes, I am have been 'overthinking', as you put it, but I rather be paranoid and right and be well prepared (as well as knowing what preventive actions to take before the shit hits the fan), than be totally unprepared and suffered the consequences
But it's all up to you guys. What I am telling you is what I, and many millions of older generation of Chinese had gone through --- we do not trust the authority, we do not trust anyone but ourselves
If you guys insist that the authority is to be trusted, that they are doing what they are doing for 'the good of the people', then that's your right to do what ever you want to do
But when the shit hits the fan (which I fervently hope it will never come true) don't blame me for not forewarning you guys
It happened in China, it could happen, and I repeat, it could happen elsewhere, including the Western countries
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !