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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsit's only metadata and our e-mail...who cares
if it was such a non issue like the partisans claim then why don't we quit the program?
It doesn't really gather anything beyond what corporations gather anyways so why didn't we have this shut down?
neverforget
(9,436 posts)call. I've asked that in an OP and directly to supporters of this and no one will answer.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)When they build a profile they also build profiles on everyone else linked to the suspect.
If I understand this correctly let's say that you go online to Target and buy an item. Afterwards,
you call your neighbor to tell them about the purchase. Subsequently, the neighbor goes online
an buys an item (???) that is used in the commission of a crime. Now the authorities acting like
how the NSA might work, pulls up your neighbor's dosier or whatever and sees your phone number!
Hopefully, the authorities buy your ignorance of your neighbor's doing but what a pain in the ____s!
What if they don't believe you?
Can you imagine what life would become? Nobody talking,,,,,afraid to do so...not a world I want
to live in. imho
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)profile, just like the govt.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)flying over the house.
I told them not to worry. It's just a mega-ton piece of steel flying through the air. We're just fine.