LOL! Agent Smith.

The problem is the future use of data. Data collection is occurring weather it is the government or a large company.

Who has access and why the data is being stored should be questioned. I am not for it, but I do my job weather I like it or not.

Maybe we should all start transmitting random six-digit numbers that look like a code.

Maybe the place will burn down as they try to decode it?

(September 21, 2013 at 10:53 pm)Dragonetti Wrote: Who has access and why the data is being stored should be questioned.

Definitely.

But, unfortunately, it might be pretty difficult to get honest answers to such questions. Why? Because the government will try to silence those who tell the truth. This means that if anyone reveals some kind of a secretive information about the US government's plans, now there is a likelihood that they will be prosecuted or even imprisoned for being a "whistleblower," like the whistleblower Edward Snowden who revealed the NSA's top-secret surveillance programs and is being charged with three felonies for doing so.

Before Snowden's revelations about the NSA secrets, there was a whistleblower protection law written in a website called Change.gov, which was the official site of the the US Presidential transition. Shortly after Snowden's whistle blowing about the NSA, however, the whistleblower protection disappeared from the website ... which can still be viewed on the Wayback archive. So, Obama first promised that he would protect whistleblowers, but now he is doing the opposite.

Quote:Yet during Mr. Obama’s first term, a record number of national security officials were prosecuted for allegedly leaking classified information to the press, a zeal that continues today, with aggressive tactics employed to locate officials who leaked information to Fox News and The Associated Press.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/opinio....html?_r=0

It's very easy for Democrats to say they'll protect whistle-blowers when they are blowing the whistle on Republican administrations. I have no doubts that when the Democrats eventually get ousted, they will flip-flop and start "protecting" them again.

Politics as usual. The bill being considered currently that limits protections for non journalists is another nail in a whistleblower's coffin, if passed. Following Tiberius' line of thinking, I can see a future push by democrats to repeal this bill/law for being well meaning but over zealous...but only with a sitting republican POTUS around reaping the benefits from it instead.

Yes, whatever is convenient to the current cause. Since, the current administration is in charge, the whistle blowers are consider a blow the party and current regime.

Also, a issue is how easy and willingly people are giving the information to companies. Remember, corporate America is assisting in this gathering.

And their price was doing so was immunity from lawsuits...which Congress willingly granted....although congressman Sensenbrunner doesn't seem to remember that he wrote it.

You know who's opinion would be nice to have on this?

Koolay's.

(September 21, 2013 at 11:55 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Maybe we should all start transmitting random six-digit numbers that look like a code.

Maybe the place will burn down as they try to decode it?

Heh... I may just hack up a script to take /dev/urandom, pipe it through openssl, and transmit it via encrypted VPN or TOR to a machine in Europe that redirects it to /dev/null. Continuously.

Have fun with that, spooks.

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