NSA PRISM Data Mining Program - What is your opinion?

[dorkdotdan]

That is strange, because you have a load of posts on the Internet that you freely allow all of us to look at for any words, not just keywords. I have not seen any videos of you in the bathroom.

What I post is what I post, I withhold what I don't want you to know. However, private info I may enter on Google which I had the understanding of only Google (and their 3rd parties) knowing, is just as intrusive if not more, since I don't discuss private information with myself on the can.

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[Lugnut]

i'd like to point out it's a small step technologically and legally from reading 'just the metadata' and 'reading/storing/using the whole thing'

so basically, if they aren't already doing it (why wouldn't they? log it all and then let the lawyers deal with making it legal to use in court later) they will be soon if this goes unchecked.

[Tomcat]

To bring my point, someone can search up, say, special interest pr0n on google and now the government can use that if they need, or, err, want to use it.

[Blockzillahead]

To bring my point, someone can search up, say, special interest pr0n on google and now the government can use that if they need, or, err, want to use it.

What do you mean use it?

Like it links to your IP and they can trace to see what your IP has searched?

[Tomcat]

What do you mean use it?

Like it links to your IP and they can trace to see what your IP has searched?

Google accounts?

Besides, Google uses computer location for many things. Someone without technical know how probably doesn't know they can disable that.

[Ipquarx]

To bring my point, someone can search up, say, special interest pr0n on google and now the government can use that if they need, or, err, want to use it.

Lots of people already do this
What the forget would the government do with that

[Blockzillahead]

Lots of people already do this
What the forget would the government do with that

arrest you for lying about your age obviously.

[Aware]

I don't think it is right, but if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. Also, this program is to stop terrorism, not to catch all you kiddies and tell your parents you are watching research.

[Harm94]

Good, now put cameras in every bathroom so DoomMonkey can live in his safe world.

[dotdot: ultimatum]

but if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-the-wrong-way-to-think-about-surveillance/
https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/
http://boingboing.net/2012/11/19/short-documentary-why-privacy.html
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21571468-lenders-are-turning-social-media-assess-borrowers-stat-oil
and lastly, if you can stand reading through it this pretty much dissolves the "I have nothing to hide" fallacy:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565&

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/the-data-trust-blog/2009/02/debunking-a-myth-if-you-have-n.html
http://theartofprivacy.com/2011/02/02/why-ive-got-nothing-to-hide-is-such-a-fallacy-4/
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110524/00084614407/privacy-is-not-secrecy-debunking-if-youve-got-nothing-to-hide-argument.shtml

>thinking this actually catches terrorists
>not looking into the future and the impacts that this can cause if misused
>data stored forever
>many other problems that nobody will read that I've already posted.

meh. keep on truckin'

[Doomonkey]

Good, now put cameras in every bathroom so DoomMonkey can live in his safe world.

You're really pushing your absurd exaggeration far.

[Tomcat]

I don't think it is right, but if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. Also, this program is to stop terrorism, not to catch all you kiddies and tell your parents you are watching research.

Or they can use the fact that the leader of the political opposition likes special interest research?

For your age you're pretty dumb lol.

[Tomcat]

Lots of people already do this
What the forget would the government do with that

I dunno.
Maybe if someone, perhaps a politician they don't like likes a particular type of forgeted up research or is cheating on his or her spouse? And that they can use that against that politician?

You're forgetin' dumber than a brick.

[Harm94]

You're really pushing your absurd exaggeration far.

What do you have to hide?

Currently CNN is talking about how evil the NSA is. I can't believe people watch this stuff, it's like the liberal version of FOX.

[Blockzillahead]

Or they can use the fact that the leader of the political opposition likes special interest research?

For your age you're pretty dumb lol.

Are they actually allowed to do that? Is it even relevant to what they are actually supposed to be doing?