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If you want to release something no one will pay attention to, what time's better than Christmas Eve? At least, that appeared to be the National Security Agency's thinking. Last night, the NSA released reports detailing all the times they've illegally spied on American citizens. Ho ho ho!
The heavily-redacted documents were released in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act. Many of these privacy violations have been previously reported on, but these documents show new specifics. A series of annual and quarterly reports from 2001 through the second quarter of 2013 are now available for perusal, and they cover some of the NSA's greatest hits: stalking potential romantic partners, a practice apparently so common it's been nicknamed LOVEINT; erroneously targeting US citizens for spying; database queries that returned queries on US citizens who weren't targeted; storage of data on servers "not authorized" to hold it; and access by people without security clearance to — well, to something; the specifics were redacted......snip~
Merry Christmas! The NSA's gift is a list of all the times it wrongly spied on you | The Verge
Looks like we were given a present and not to many knew about it. What say ye?
Yawn! I have more important things to worry about than the "big scarey gov" looking at me.
As long as we don't hear about any sweating. It is always good-like. Just sayin.
The analyst accidentally putting NSA surveillance on himself probably gets talked about a lot at the water cooler even to this day.
Yawn! I have more important things to worry about than the "big scarey gov" looking at me.
I am pretty sure that I have been spied on by NSA chicks that want to date me. The NSA are pretty freaky.
Yawn! I have more important things to worry about than the "big scarey gov" looking at me.
I feel that you are missing the bigger picture. While this may seem and may be relatively harmless for your average citizen, for me, it is not about the government spying so much as it being another instance of the government doing things that should not be doing and doing so with impunity. How many more things is our government doing behind closed doors that it should never be doing? I suspect that for every instance we hear about that they probably have a dozen other things we are never aware of. At what point do we stop giving the government a pass and demand something better? For me that time came a long time ago.
If you want to release something no one will pay attention to, what time's better than Christmas Eve? At least, that appeared to be the National Security Agency's thinking. Last night, the NSA released reports detailing all the times they've illegally spied on American citizens. Ho ho ho!
The heavily-redacted documents were released in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act. Many of these privacy violations have been previously reported on, but these documents show new specifics. A series of annual and quarterly reports from 2001 through the second quarter of 2013 are now available for perusal, and they cover some of the NSA's greatest hits: stalking potential romantic partners, a practice apparently so common it's been nicknamed LOVEINT; erroneously targeting US citizens for spying; database queries that returned queries on US citizens who weren't targeted; storage of data on servers "not authorized" to hold it; and access by people without security clearance to — well, to something; the specifics were redacted......snip~
Merry Christmas! The NSA's gift is a list of all the times it wrongly spied on you | The Verge
Looks like we were given a present and not to many knew about it. What say ye?
I'm not to worried about it, after the next world war we'll be back to fighting with sticks and swords anyway.If you want to release something no one will pay attention to, what time's better than Christmas Eve? At least, that appeared to be the National Security Agency's thinking. Last night, the NSA released reports detailing all the times they've illegally spied on American citizens. Ho ho ho!
The heavily-redacted documents were released in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act. Many of these privacy violations have been previously reported on, but these documents show new specifics. A series of annual and quarterly reports from 2001 through the second quarter of 2013 are now available for perusal, and they cover some of the NSA's greatest hits: stalking potential romantic partners, a practice apparently so common it's been nicknamed LOVEINT; erroneously targeting US citizens for spying; database queries that returned queries on US citizens who weren't targeted; storage of data on servers "not authorized" to hold it; and access by people without security clearance to — well, to something; the specifics were redacted......snip~
Merry Christmas! The NSA's gift is a list of all the times it wrongly spied on you | The Verge
Looks like we were given a present and not to many knew about it. What say ye?
It makes me wonder why there were so many Republicans celebrating and cheering when the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. ACT was passed. All that "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about" and "you're either with us or against us" and "if you question anything the government does then the terrorists win". Republicans certainly were quiet or celebratory when people tried to warn them about government abuse of power then.
This is why you always keep the government from putting their foot in the door. But Republicans are such short-sighted hypocrites that they pushed through all the government's ability to engage in these abuses: all while claiming that the government should be kept small.
I'm not to worried about it, after the next world war we'll be back to fighting with sticks and swords anyway.
That seems to be the way human civilization goes....we have a great expanse of knowledge and wondrous cities for a while, then self-imposed calamity sends us back into the dark ages for a few thousand years, then rise of knowledge again. Although, it seems that every-time we reach that technological peek, we advance further than the previous iteration. I would love to be alive during the next peek when we go to the moon "for the first time" and discover we were already there.
Yawn! I have more important things to worry about than the "big scarey gov" looking at me.
It makes me wonder why there were so many Republicans celebrating and cheering when the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. ACT was passed. All that "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about" and "you're either with us or against us" and "if you question anything the government does then the terrorists win". Republicans certainly were quiet or celebratory when people tried to warn them about government abuse of power then.
This is why you always keep the government from putting their foot in the door. But Republicans are such short-sighted hypocrites that they pushed through all the government's ability to engage in these abuses: all while claiming that the government should be kept small.
And I'm sure constitutional governance is not one of them....
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