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Most of the anger at PRISM is that it apparently involves collecting data about everyone. Carnivore was supposedly designed to be deployed against people who a
by A1kmm 13y ago
Most of the anger at PRISM is that it apparently involves collecting data about everyone.
Carnivore was supposedly designed to be deployed against people who are suspects for a particular reason already. While some of the ECHELON satellite intercept hardware and the existence of the UKUSA agreement is known, exactly what is intercepted does not appear to have been ever leaked, and so the public have never had any reason based on mainstream media reports that they personally are being spied on.
Many people might be happy for a scheme that involves criminals being monitored, because they never think it will apply to them. But those same people will be angry when they hear definitive proof that a government is filing away data on them even though they didn't do anything wrong.
- temp9251 13y agoWhat makes you think PRISM collects data about everyone? BLARNEY/FAIRVIEW are their "upstream data collection" programs. PRISM isn't one of their dragnets, so it confuses me that people are only talking about it. And what about the "give us all data for everyone each day" orders to phone companies? Why aren't we talking about that? It mystifies me why everyone is so focused on PRISM, there is zero logical basis - and I'm starting to suspect it's intentional that the most innocuous program is taking up the majority of media time.