June 10, 2013

Guess Who's Coming to... Everything

By Daren Jonescu
The world is presently inundated with revelations or reminders of the U.S. federal government's various means of collecting information about everyone's private correspondence, of how bureaucratic offices sympathetic to the current administration are using private information to target political opponents, and of how federal officials are using legitimate national security concerns to build support for increasing public surveillance and private "data-mining" so ominous that a "career intelligence officer" felt compelled to reveal the secret data-mining system, explaining that "They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type." I dare anyone to say "So what?" in answer to that claim. Conservative response to the data-mining and phone record collecting stories has been mixed. While many are sounding alarm bells, and citing the IRS "scandal" as evidence of the danger of allowing the government indiscriminate access to private communications data, others are offering legalistic...(Read Full Article)