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In reply to the discussion: Don't entertain this garbage. [View all]Summer Hathaway
(2,770 posts)on anyone who has been arrested because "the people they were calling, or receiving calls from might (or might not) have been engaged in terrorism"?
Know anyone who's been detained because they were 'butt-dialed' by the wrong person?
The ridiculous non-sequitar transition into people on death row having been in the wrong place at the wrong time - seriously? When was the last time someone ended up on death row as a result of the gov't looking at their phone records in a database?
I've been reading on DU for the last 48-hours all kinds of speculation, conspiracy theories, and downright lunacy about the info the gov't is currently gathering and storing, and 'where it will all lead'.
And yet, despite the fact that this data-mining has been going on for years, I've not seen one example of someone charged with so much as a parking ticket as a result of megadata collection.