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In reply to the discussion: Isn't it amusing to see all the Obama defenders ignoring the issue of mass surveillance? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)who support totalitarian states. Either you are with us or against us.
Either you love America or you should leave.
The idea that we can have a free discussion based on facts that our government has denied us is to frightening to them.
The government has withheld from us the information that is collecting our metadata. And for good reason. It is very probably in my opinion unconstitutional to be collecting it in the indiscriminate manner in which they are. That is why they didn't want us to know about it.
We need an international protocol on how such information is handled, when and how it may be collected and whether each citizen has a right to know what its government and other governments have collected about him or her.
I not only don't want the government collecting this data, but I don't want other governments collecting it either. What's more, I want a private company or individual to ask me before it collects this data on me.
That's what I want.