Saturday, November 29, 2014
"The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control"
Important news items are frequently displaced by other important news items.
This one has clearly fallen by the wayside.
Government surveillance is a big deal, and I think it's a good day to review it...
This one has clearly fallen by the wayside.
Government surveillance is a big deal, and I think it's a good day to review it...
This article by Antony Loewenstein appeared in July at theGuardian.com:
"'At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US', Binney said. 'This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.'
The NSA will soon be able to collect 966 exabytes a year, the total of internet traffic annually. Former Google head Eric Schmidt once argued that the entire amount of knowledge from the beginning of humankind until 2003 amount to only five exabytes.
Binney, who featured in a 2012 short film by Oscar-nominated US film-maker Laura Poitras, described a future where surveillance is ubiquitous and government intrusion unlimited."
