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bemildred

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4. Here:
Thu Jun 27, 2013, 09:55 AM
Jun 2013
http://boingboing.net/2013/06/21/brit-spies-gchq-harvest-all-un.html

Just google Tempora and you will gets lots of stuff, mostly sourced from Guardian.

I'm not going to argue about it, I don't claim to know the facts, but I read a lot, and that's what it says, and I can guarantee you it better not be true.
How many people do you think are involved? (nt) Recursion Jun 2013 #1
I saw 850,000 "analysts", many privatized, wading through the data in the UK press. bemildred Jun 2013 #2
What "data"? All of it? I call BS on that. Recursion Jun 2013 #3
Here: bemildred Jun 2013 #4
UK has never had a 4th amendment or anything like it Recursion Jun 2013 #5
Yes, it is different, and I don't claim to know much about that, but bemildred Jun 2013 #7
You call BS? Maybe the figure is wrong. Maybe it's only 849,000 people. You dont know. PERIOD!! rhett o rick Jun 2013 #8
And since most of it is now handled by Private Security Corporations, we have no idea how much sabrina 1 Jun 2013 #9
Well yeah, there are some other issues like that too. bemildred Jun 2013 #11
I can I agree I don't like the implementation of the program, it's a waste IMHO. That's it... uponit7771 Jun 2013 #6
Good gwad marions ghost Jun 2013 #12
link and quote please uponit7771 Jun 2013 #13
Been enough of those to sink the marions ghost Jun 2013 #15
I don't live on DU, do you have a link and quote of this ? regards uponit7771 Jun 2013 #18
You may need to do some research marions ghost Jun 2013 #20
Why are we required to agree on that? treestar Jun 2013 #10
This I would agree with. Chan790 Jun 2013 #14
Yeah we just need more Bots marions ghost Jun 2013 #16
I'm not talking about his conscience or bots. Chan790 Jun 2013 #17
So do some personality tests marions ghost Jun 2013 #19
You scare me. Chan790 Jun 2013 #21
If you think the problem here is better "vetting"-- marions ghost Jun 2013 #22
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