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What's disturbing is that even though they know which data is from US citizens, they still won't discard it, and can even use it. I mean, maybe I can understand
by salient 13y ago
What's disturbing is that even though they know which data is from US citizens, they still won't discard it, and can even use it. I mean, maybe I can understand if they "incidentally" collect the data of some people - although doing that for tens of thousand of people a year is really pushing it since all sorts of people could be in that "incidental" collection, and US persons could actually be targeted this way, and then masked as being "incidental collection".
But even after they know they are Americans, they still keep it? That's just unacceptable. This other story puts things in an even scarier perspective, because of what they can do with that data if it gets trickled down to other agencies (parallel construction, etc:
https://www.aclu.org/meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-all-location-data https://www.aclu.org/meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-a...
- smtddr 13y agoThe fact that we are somehow considering Americans' privacy more important that non-Americans' privacy is what I find disturbing. Also, the illusion that they were ever discarding American citizens' data never took hold of me. The NSA collects ALL THE DATA.
- aet 13y agoWhat is this thing you call privacy?
- aet 13y agoI guess down voters don't get the reference.
- rgbrenner 13y agoSorry.. but Americans privacy is more important than non-Americans when we are talking about the US government. They aren't collecting the data for entertainment. They can very easily round up anyone they please on US soil. At least you have your own government to protect you (assuming you aren't important enough to start a war over).
- sentenza 13y agoYou are never leaving the american sector[1]. [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F079005-0022,_Berlin,_Grenz%C3%BCbergang_Checkpoint_Charlie.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bi...
- logn 13y ago> The fact that we are somehow considering Americans' privacy more important that non-Americans' privacy is what I find disturbing. I see this argument a lot. While I do think it is totally valid, I think people forget that the NSA doesn't have any direct authority over foreign citizens in theory (but in practice probably all the intel orgs share info and exert influence across borders).