The NSA is building a massive data center in Utah to read every email you'll ever send.

[kenny blankenship]

18. But computer algorithms couldn't POSSIBLY make a mistake

and by that simple erroneous assumption, or faulty piece of data, or unwarranted correlation, cause the government to mistakenly regard ordinary citizens as criminal or terror suspects. It could never happen that the government might populate a secret enemies list on which thousands perhaps tens of thousands of perfectly innocent people might be trapped, not knowing their "pre-suspect" status and unaware of how suspicions and ratings passed around from marketing corporation to alaphabet government security agency to credit bureau dogs their life and misshapes their destiny. People would never be scooped off the streets by unmarked vans belonging to obscure agencies and indefinitely detained in undisclosed locations, under unknown charges, fake names, and on the basis of unseen, unchallengeable evidence.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/07/anne-lenhart-cvs-arrested_n_1496927.html

When Ann Lenhart hobbled into her Dallas-area CVS pharmacy on crutches, her leg was engulfed in a large brace and she had a permanent IV line in her arm.

She was looking to fill a prescription for Norco, a powerful narcotic she'd been prescribed the previous month after shattering her kneecap while doing volunteer work in Haiti. (h/t The Consumerist)

Lenhart spent a night in the Dallas County jail while the police tried to contact her doctor, according to a local television station in Dallas Fort Worth, Texas. The following day she was released on bond and was charged with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, CBS 11 News reported.

The police eventually dropped the charges after speaking with Lenhart's doctor, who confirmed the legitimacy of the prescription but said he never received a call from CVS. A CVS representative told CBS that the company is "investigating how this unfortunate incident occurred and we are working to resolve the matter with Ms. Lenhart."