XKeyscore makes Prism seem tame

Started by Gary, Aug 01, 2013, 08:46:37

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Gary

The cover has been blown on an NSA program which collects data on "nearly everything a user does on the internet" even as the debate rages over the secretive US agency's mass surveillance of innocent people.

The XKeyscore program covers emails, social media activity and browsing history and is accessible to NSA analysts with little or no prior authorisation, according to a leaked presentation published by The Guardian today.

'They don't even have to know who you are to track you down'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/31/prism_put_in_the_shade_by_leak_about_even_more_powerful_snoop_tool/
Damned, if you do damned if you don't

Simon

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Gary

so how many TV progtams like 'person of interest' and books like 1984 have come true in the last month or so...  :swoon:
Damned, if you do damned if you don't

mervl

"We do because we can". Don't we all?