re: #72 Justanotherhuman

This is the story that GG is now shilling on Twitter. bloomberg.com

Yet, contained in the very first paragraph is an assumption, not necessarily true. “Imagine the government passed a law requiring all citizens to carry a tracking device. Such a law would immediately be found unconstitutional. Yet we all carry mobile phones.”

It goes on: “The NSA is also in the business of spying on everyone, and it has realized it’s far easier to collect all the data from these corporations rather than from us directly. In some cases, the NSA asks for this data nicely. In other cases, it makes use of subtle threats or overt pressure. If that doesn’t work, it uses tools like national security letters.”

Fanning the flames of misinformation.

Hidden in that passage is the point that the corporations collect the data, and use it as they please, and they don’t have to get a warrant, and nobody reviews what they do with it.