by Nathan Natas 3 Replies latest social current
For the last several years, the National Security Agency has been reportedly spying on the searches, emails, and file transfers of Americans using a program called PRISM—which tapped directly into the servers used by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others.
The program was revealed Thursday in separate stories from the Washington Post and The Guardian, which earlier revealed that the NSA had worked with Verizon to monitor the metadata of millions of phone calls made by Americans.
Sad that no one seems to mind.
Perhaps now that the "War on Terror" is over they will stop.
BTW, I'm not holding my breath.
As of today's revelations that the government has been tracking our e-mails I just wanted to mention to those of us who forward e-mails expressing the love of our Great Leader, BrackO are apparently known to the Big Brother and are probably on a list somewhere that has been CC'd to the IRS.. With that in mind, I just want to say,
We just celebrated D Day and honored the people who sacrificed their lives to stop just such totalitarian tactics.
Thank you Nathan for bringing this to our attention. I live in Europe, and supposedly non-US citizens have been spied too. This is absolutely disgusting!
It does sound like Nazi-methods to me. I don't care if someone is reading this at NSA. We should have our own firm convictions and if they are not "suitable" to the government, then so be it. Because, today "terrorism" can be something related to being a muslim and tomorrow it can be because you wear pink underwear. See Turkey. People demonstrating on the streets are considered "terrorists" and "criminals".
If the government will go against its own citizens than something is terribly wrong.
Sad, but we have to count on more and more of this (not forgetting the sick tendency of more public cameras, etc.)
