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The NSA Is Turning The Internet Into A Total Surveillance System - GuardianUK
The NSA is turning the internet into a total surveillance systemNow we know all Americans' international email is searched and saved, we can see how far the 'collect it all' mission has gone
Alexander Abdo and Patrick Toomey - theguardian.com
Sunday 11 August 2013 09.00 EDT
According to the New York Times, the NSA is searching the content of virtually every email that comes into or goes out of the United States without a warrant. To accomplish this astonishing invasion of Americans' privacy, the NSA reportedly is making a copy of nearly every international email. It then searches that cloned data, keeping all of the emails containing certain keywords and deleting the rest – all in a matter of seconds.
The NSA appears to believe this general monitoring of our electronic communications is justified because the entire process takes, in one official's words, "a small number of seconds". Translation: the NSA thinks it can intercept and then read Americans' emails so long as the intrusion is swift, efficient and silent.
That is not how the fourth amendment works.
Whether the NSA inspects and retains these messages for years, or only searches through them once before moving on, the invasion of Americans' privacy is real and immediate. There is no "five-second rule" for fourth amendment violations: the US constitution does not excuse these bulk searches simply because they happen in the blink of an eye.
That is not how the fourth amendment works.
Whether the NSA inspects and retains these messages for years, or only searches through them once before moving on, the invasion of Americans' privacy is real and immediate. There is no "five-second rule" for fourth amendment violations: the US constitution does not excuse these bulk searches simply because they happen in the blink of an eye.
That legal theory is extraordinarily dangerous because it would allow the NSA to acquire virtually all digital information today simply because it might possibly become relevant tomorrow. The surveillance program revealed by the New York Times report goes one step further still. No longer is the government simply collecting information now so that the data is available to search, should a reasonable suspicion arise at some point in the future; the NSA is searching everything now – in real time and without suspicion – merely on the chance that it finds something of interest.
That principle of pre-emptive surveillance threatens to subvert the most basic protections of the fourth amendment, which generally prohibit the government from conducting suspicion-less fishing expeditions through our private affairs. If the government is correct that it can search our every communication in case we say or type something suspicious, there is little to prevent the NSA from converting the internet into a tool of pervasive surveillance.
That principle of pre-emptive surveillance threatens to subvert the most basic protections of the fourth amendment, which generally prohibit the government from conducting suspicion-less fishing expeditions through our private affairs. If the government is correct that it can search our every communication in case we say or type something suspicious, there is little to prevent the NSA from converting the internet into a tool of pervasive surveillance.
More: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/11/nsa-internet-surveillance-email
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Wonderful people, The Romans.
Exactly what part of the concept: ''New World Order'' do people not understand!?!?!
To have a New World Order, first you have to have control of a world.
How do you do that?, you might ask.
Why it's simple really. You get into everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY's business.
Like, say.... their email. Their credit accounts. Their bank accounts. Their sex lives. Their tax haven accounts. Their hideaways, cutbacks and rabbit holes. Their DNA. Their water rights. Their energy needs. THEIR EVERYTHING.
Kinda like where we are right now.
- Once you have your new world, next comes the order part.....
K&R
