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Edward Snowden: All-seeing, or myopic? (Donna Brazile)
... it's not just the NSA. A telephone app soon to be sold to the public is capable of looking at an incoming call and presenting the receiver with "an impressive screenshot of (the caller's) personal and professional data: Facebook pictures, email contacts, mutual friends" ...It makes me wish for the days when the biggest threat to my privacy was the giggling teenager listening in on the telephone party line ...
I'm not discounting his idealism. He clearly is genuinely concerned about NSA's massive data-mining program ...
... NSA surveillance is not new (see the Patriot Act of 2001) and it's now regulated (see FISA, 2006). But as "The Daily Show's" John Oliver said, "Instead of being spied on by the executive branch, it turns out we're being spied on by all the branches. ... No one is saying that (the government) broke any laws; we're just saying it's a little bit weird that (it) didn't have to" ...
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