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Downwinder

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4. Sounds like NSA snooping has replaced polls.

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Thu Jun 6, 2013, 05:41 PM

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BIG STORY from WaPo: Government secretly mining data from Internet corps. UPDATE: Companies deny. [View all] BlueCheese Jun 2013 OP

The phone data-mining was just the tip of the iceberg n/t brentspeak Jun 2013 #1

Beginning to look that way. BlueCheese Jun 2013 #5

LBN Thread: Hissyspit Jun 2013 #19

OnStar has a passive listening feature. Dawson Leery Jun 2013 #2

I've heard that it can be disconnected. Ednahilda Jun 2013 #28

LOL really? Lenomsky Jun 2013 #36

I think I heard about disconnecting OnStar Ednahilda Jun 2013 #37

And my cover is blown. Prism Jun 2013 #3

Sounds like NSA snooping has replaced polls. Downwinder Jun 2013 #4

Look out for your cloud storage.... marions ghost Jun 2013 #6

Twitter is "conspicuously absent" BlueCheese Jun 2013 #7

Well, isn't Twitter highly transparent anyway? marions ghost Jun 2013 #9

Probably... BlueCheese Jun 2013 #10

Good point marions ghost Jun 2013 #14

Goodie, we fall in that 4% as in news nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #13

Interesting: ProSense Jun 2013 #8

I wish I could even feign surprise any longer nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #11

Is the other story just a diversion?? kentuck Jun 2013 #12

Facebook is lifelong privicide markiv Jun 2013 #15

"Privicide" marions ghost Jun 2013 #17

Microsoft was the first "partner." And now they want to put a Kinect DirkGently Jun 2013 #16

There are already cameras abelenkpe Jun 2013 #29

No. Private companies are not reading our e-mail & logging our phone calls. DirkGently Jun 2013 #33

masking tape RILib Jun 2013 #38

2007 - that makes this Chickenhawk Chimpy's Republican tar baby Berlum Jun 2013 #18

that's ONE year under bush.. frylock Jun 2013 #20

I almost don't care which president is most responsible for this. BlueCheese Jun 2013 #21

Wyden RILib Jun 2013 #26

Of course. He's first on the list. And Udall of Colorado, as well. BlueCheese Jun 2013 #27

WOW, this information has been Iliyah Jun 2013 #22

+1000 G_j Jun 2013 #23

exactly. nt abelenkpe Jun 2013 #31

Well, duh. MS, Yahoo, Google, FB, etc., are all mining your personal data... Honeycombe8 Jun 2013 #24

Greenwald at the Guardian also broke this story today. Both the Guardian & Washingtong Post received Luminous Animal Jun 2013 #25

The first time any of us signed onto the internet we lost our privacy. nt justiceischeap Jun 2013 #30

Update: Companies flatly deny being involved. BlueCheese Jun 2013 #32

Plausible denialbility? kentuck Jun 2013 #34

Here's the statement the Director of National Intelligence released octoberlib Jun 2013 #35

they're lying RILib Jun 2013 #39