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In reply to the discussion: Don't entertain this garbage. [View all]mercymechap
(579 posts)paranoid about the government as some of you are.
You use a computer and are on a Political Forum, if you think that your comments and the personal information you provided to get on the forum, not to mention the IP on your computer aren't being stored somewhere, you are the one that is naive. And even if you used a fake name and fake e-mail, it can all be traced back to you.
Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, they all store their data. You buy stuff from Amazon.com, they know which kinds of books you like and will offer books similar to what you've bought. I'm sure other companies do the same.
And, you are not really being spied on by the government. All they have are phone numbers and the phone numbers that your phone number has called and has received calls from. They can only access the contents with a warrant and they have to have justifiable reason to do that. Yes, there's been cases were people have been abused - as long as we have humans involved there will always be such incidents, but they are the exception, not the rule.
And, with all the terrorist inter-action going on in our own country, I just can't understand why people value the privacy of their phone number (which in most cases has been given out to numerous people) over the possibility that such information could prevent another 9/11.
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2013/01/reality-check-there-are-more-terrorist-groups-active-in-the-us-than-any-other-country-in-the-world-2564108.html