Mike Huckabee Remember when the government claimed that no low-level NSA employee could access your private information? This week, the NSA released documents outlining its surveillance programs. They claim that while they may gather up all our phone logs, they can only be accessed when an executive branch official determines there’s a reasonable suspicion that the number is associated with terrorism. Whew! Good! But wait: the very same day, the fountain of leaks, the Guardian newspaper, exposed yet another secret program called XKeyscore. It allegedly allows analysts with no prior authorization to snoop through the emails, online chats and browser histories of millions of Americans. The good news: that’s so much data that it can be stored for only a few days. But specific data can be saved, if it’s “interesting.” So apparently, if you want your private communications to be safe from the prying eyes of Washington, there’s only one way: try not to be too interesting.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 02:28:33 +0000