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wraith808:
NSA Whistleblower Details How The NSA Has Spied On US Citizens Since 9/11

In a short video called "The Program," Binney explains how the agency took part of one of the programs he built and started using it to spy on virtually every U.S. citizen without warrants under the code-name Stellar Wind.

Binney details how the top-secret surveillance program, the scope of which has never been made public, can track electronic activities—phone calls, emails, banking and travel records, social media—and map them to collect "all the attributes that any individual has" in every type of activity and build a profile based on that data.

"So that now I can pull your entire life together from all those domains and map it out and show your entire life over time," Binney says.

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40hz:
Wow! Can you believe they did that? :tellme:

Seriously however, that's the real problem with surveillance technologies. They're addictive and they beg to be used. Sad when the people who have sworn an oath to protect the United States of America and all that it stands for have probably done more in the last 20 years to undermine it than the efforts of any "Evil Empire" ever did.

But that's what happens when the paranoia and political ideologies of some in power no longer allows them to see the fundamental difference between acts of patriotism and acts of treason. And once such people adopt the premise that "the ends justify the means," there can no longer be any difference.

Renegade:
Wow! Can you believe they did that? :tellme:
-40hz (September 12, 2012, 05:24 PM)
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Hahahahaha~! Very funny! :P

SeraphimLabs:
So that begs the question

If this is for real, how come they are unable to reliably provide evidence to put hardened criminals back in prison or to prevent con artists from scamming millions of dollars.

I would think if they were actually watching in that kind of detail, they'd be using it to clean up all the lesser crimes society is dealing with.

No, more likely they are going to deny the living daylight out of this existing at all, and migrate it to a new codename so that it is once again safely hidden away.

40hz:
^Likely that's a variation of the Coventry gambit.

But the goal of this sort of thing isn't to prevent crime. It's to protect the security and secrecy of certain entrenched political interests.

Like Hoover said, justice is incidental to enforcing law and order. So is fighting crime since people who are victimized by criminals provide the convenient benefit of demanding more restrictive laws and a larger police presence to enforce them.

To those who pull strings, ongoing violent crime is a win-win. Especially for the proponents of expanded government authority.

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