New NSA revelation
With the new revelation that the NSA has been collecting call information from the phone companies I keep smiling because of all the three monkey republicans that defended Bush and his program. I'm not sure that this program is illegal and I don't know when it was started, but if you ever needed a lesson in the over reaching of big government between these two programs you have it.
What may be a little more scary for those of us out here in the world is how easily all the big phone companies turned over our personal information. Shouldn't they be on the hook?
posted by RBM @ 7:30 AM
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5 Comments:
Who says a list of telephone numbers is personal?
Did you know that Verizion was going to sell a monthly list of your phone calls to the US Government. Did they ever tell you? Do you know where that information will wind up?
Slippery sliding slopes my friend.
This particular "slippery slope" was decided by the Supreme Court back around 1979.
I'm more worried about the massive compilation of my personal financial data over at IRS than I am about the government knowing that my phone number called some other phone number 7 times last month. The financial data can be misused to damage me, while the telephone records cannot.
As someone said on another blog earlier today, you can't expect the government to connect the dots if you don't let them look at the dots.
As you said, they have many dots and the phone records could be used to damage someone that, perhaps, was having a disagrement with the IRS. What if the data somehow found its way into the IRS's hands. How secure is the data? Could it find its way into the hands of your competitor? Local police? A grand jury?
I don't know about you, but I think these people already have too much information and I'll bet their doing a whole lot more with the data than is being told.
Don't know if this will change your take on the "phone records" NSA program, but the phone records the government has been data mining do not include name and address. When a phone number is matched with calls to terrorists, the government goes to court to obtain a warrant for the "personal data."
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