NSA PRISM Data Mining Program - What is your opinion?

[Man 2]

Twenty-four-seven surveillance is nothing new, and it will never really be gone.
That being said, it does make me want to completely eliminate my digital footprint, alter my appearance beyond recognition, change my name, learn a foreign language and move halfway across the world, but I know I'd still be watched by everybody, everywhere, all the time.

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[dorkdotdan]

"People willing to trade trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both“
-Benjamin Franklin

[ultimamax]

Oh no, what I type to people and what I say to them. Ahhh! Do you really think they hold all of your information and then just read through it for fun and blackmail? No, they hold it and when you start researching how to build a nuclear bomb then they look at your history and catch you. If you haven't been flagged as someone to watch then they probably throw it away after some years anyway.

This doesn't worry you whatsoever? What use would they have for this information that is worth going to such lengths, through so much secrecy, to do?

[Doomonkey]

This doesn't worry you whatsoever? What use would they have for this information that is worth going to such lengths, through so much secrecy, to do?

To stop terrorists. There are too many independent portions of government and too many free thinkers for the US to turn into a real Big Brother state.

"People willing to trade trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both“
-Benjamin Franklin

He was a founding father, they were famous for being paranoid of large government. My point is that the fear of the government having information in the age of information is a little silly.

[Alteration]

To stop terrorists.

There are probably about 50 - 100 actual terrorists in the USA
Monitoring 313.9 million people (thank you google) to find a handful of people is absurd.

There are too many independent portions of government and too many free thinkers for the US to turn into a real Big Brother state.

I wish. The only free thinkers are condemned by the public and the rest are the ones pushing out this kind of stuff.

He was a founding father, they were famous for being paranoid of large government. My point is that the fear of the government having information in the age of information is a little silly.

The government does not need to be able to monitor your house, your phone calls, online chats and skype orgies. If you are doing something illegal, evidence of that can be found without the intensive filtering of your furaffinity account.

[Menen]

He was a founding father, they were famous for being paranoid of large government. My point is that the fear of the government having information in the age of information is a little silly.

They weren't paranoid enough to add "Freedom to Privacy" to the Bill of Rights.

[Harm94]

4th Amendment, if they are going to search they better have a warrant and probable cause.

[Doomonkey]

There are probably about 50 - 100 actual terrorists in the USA
Monitoring 313.9 million people (thank you google) to find a handful of people is absurd.

I wish. The only free thinkers are condemned by the public and the rest are the ones pushing out this kind of stuff.

The government does not need to be able to monitor your house, your phone calls, online chats and skype orgies. If you are doing something illegal, evidence of that can be found without the intensive filtering of your furaffinity account.

It isn't like that listen to/watch it all bro, they use computers to scan for key words. They just ask already existing companies to give them information, the monitoring system isn't that difficult, so if they can save a couple of lives a year it seems worth it.

[Kalphiter²]

It isn't like that listen to/watch it all bro, they use computers to scan for key words. They just ask already existing companies to give them information, the monitoring system isn't that difficult, so if they can save a couple of lives a year it seems worth it.

Right, because terrorism is an ongoing threat in the US!

[Kimon]

Right, because terrorism is an ongoing threat in the US!

Just because it doesn't happen often doesn't mean we should just completely ignore it...

[dorkdotdan]

It isn't like that listen to/watch it all bro, they use computers to scan for key words. They just ask already existing companies to give them information, the monitoring system isn't that difficult, so if they can save a couple of lives a year it seems worth it.

This is not the way to stop terrorism.

The way to stop terrorism is to stop the unprovoked Flash Mobing of middle eastern citizens like we saw in the Bradley Manning leak.

[Nickelob Ultra]

the thing is i don't think they're monitoring every single communication going on.  they likely have a crawler program that sifts through the data and picks out people with key backgrounds or with specific words.

[AlsoSulfate]

don't worry white people you're probably safe

[Amerax]

don't worry white people you're probably safe

Oh thank god.

[Blockzillahead]

like i've said before, if you didn't do anything wrong you have nothing to worry about.