Glenn Greenwald: NSA Can Store A BILLION CELL PHONE CALLS Every Day

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62. Do people really

not get that the fucking gas station isn't the fucking government? That civil rights/liberties can only be violated by government? That communicating information to a private entity during the coarse of doing business with that entity has absolutely no relationship to a government collecting that information? That stating there is some similarity means there is no privacy at all? By that ridiculous logic the information stored by my doctor or my bank would be fine too...after all, I have given them my info, therefore I must not care who has that info. That the gas station and cell phone company isn't also collecting my phone data, my location data, my financial data, my email data, my internet data, and whothefuckknows what other data...My phone company has a fiduciary responsibility to me and a terms of service which is enforceable civilly and even criminally. Jeeezuz the amount of ignorance surrounding historical government access to information always required both transparency through release of public information, petitioning of a court with a presiding judge who's oath is soundly based on upholding the constitution of the US who requires a very specific objective on a very specific individual or group of individuals, and for the retrieval of very specific items. No those who see no sideways shit in this whole story are more likely political hacks trying to protect their political interests, are indifferent about the weight of the US government, or are just ignorant of the ability of the government to destroy their life individually or collectively..