We are really not paranoid, I red that 71% of our phone calls are not private!!! and some calls even collected into specific protocol files. This government term for these actions is mass surveillance, while the general public is calling this term gang stalking, among other things. It is not only done through the NSA but also community organizations, traveling conventions such as TED groups and bioscience authority's to help cue efforts. Its bigger than you could ever imagine and wants to basically control everybody, even if they have to go to the greatest lengths to get our country's so called democracy to work properly. I can honestly say if we have no say except only when voting nothing will ever stand correctly, Democracy now!!!
Jun 2, 2014
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance has greatly expanded in the years since September 11, 2001. Recent disclosures have shown that the government is regularly the calls of hundreds of millions of Americans and spying on a vast but unknown number of Americans' international calls, text messages, and emails.
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The government's new surveillance programs have infiltrated most of the communications technologies we have come to rely on. They are largely enabled by two problematic laws passed by Congress under a national security premise: the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act (FAA). While the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) oversees the government's surveillance activities, it operates in near-total secrecy through one-sided procedures that heavily favor the government.
Our Constitution and democratic system demand that government be transparent and accountable to the people, not the other way around. History has shown that powerful, secret surveillance tools will almost certainly be abused for political ends.
The ACLU has been at the forefront of the struggle to rein in the surveillance superstructure, which strikes at the core of our rights to privacy, free speech, and association. Read on to learn what we're doing to roll back the surveillance state.
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Most Americans applaud Snowden’s exposure of NSA mass surveillance – poll
Almost one year after Edward Snowden unveiled the NSA’s bulk data collection, more than half of employed Americans believe he was right to do so, according to a recent poll. More than 80 percent still fear their digital privacy is being undermined.
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A total of 1,007 Americans in employment were questioned for the survey, and 55 percent of them said they approved of Snowden’s leaking classified NSA files. Forty-four percent said the move was right because mass surveillance violated their constitutional rights.
The poll has been published by encrypted cloud storage provider Tresorit, who commissioned third-party firm YouGov to do the research.
“No doubt, Snowden brought the issue of privacy to the fore of public awareness, especially as many then argued that 2014 would be the year we awaken to the need for security and privacy online,” Tresorit CEO Istvan Lam said.
Eighty-two percent of respondents said they believed their personal information is still being held by the US government, while 81 percent said their privacy was undermined by corporations for business purposes.
“In a post-Snowden world, it’s clear that consumer confidence regarding their private, online documents is extremely low,” Lam said.
Tresorit’s poll findings have, however, been challenged by another poll for NBC, following their broadcast of an exclusive interview with Edward Snowden.
Read Snowden’s comments on 9/11 that NBC didn’t broadcast.
Only 24 percent of NBC survey participants believed Snowden did the right thing by exposing confidential data on NSA’s mass surveillance, while 34 percent of respondents disapproved of his actions.
40 percent were not sure of their attitude to Snowden’s leaks, while one-quarter of respondents confessed to not even knowing who Edward Snowden was.
However, a plurality of younger respondents (aged between 18 and 34) approved of Snowden’s actions, with 32 percent of them in favor of them and 20 percent against.