This is the world you live in:
1 - Anything you do at work can be looked at by your employer. You have no privacy there.
2 - At home, everything you do goes over a network and the metadata is cataloged. Notice that the PRISM description I posted specifically notes that it can collect metadata. How is it that private companies can collect metadata using PRISM? Because the courts have repeatedly ruled that metadata collection is legal because you, dear Kurska, have no expectation of privacy when it comes to your metadata.
3 - So, any foreign govt can already very very easily collect all of this stuff without even breaking a sweat. As for XKeyscore, it looks to be just another level of detail far as getting more into the metadata. There's a lot of wild claims being made as to what it can do, but it's early; I'll wait a while and see what really shakes out as the truth about it. I see one poster getting into the issue of breaking into the encryption on VPNs, which would then allow actual content to be spied on as it passes over these private networks. Possible. Unlike you, I don't just assume that the USG is doing industrial espionage, so the purpose of this would be very different from what the Chinese would do with it. I do assume the Chinese are using any capability they may have developed in this direction for industrial espionage, as that was already proven before Obama was going to meet with them and ask them to stop, an effort that Snowden very conspicuously and very consciously, I'm quite sure, sabotaged. But you're not interested in that, are you? You're just interested in beating up on the US for what it's doing without regard for the FACT that the Chinese are doing far worse. Which seems to be SOP here on DU.
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