NSA Scandal - Smartphone Surveillance - Showdown Over Warrantless Cell Phone Searches
It's much worse than that...
Top NSA whistleblower William Binney – the former head of the
National Security Agency’s global digital data gathering program, and a
32-year veteran of that agency who was a “legend” among NSA workers –
says that the NSA database is used to harass and even frame anyone the government doesn’t like.
The chief technology officer of the CIA, Gus Hunt, made the following shocking admission back in March: “We fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever.” He followed that statement up with this gem: “It is really very nearly within our grasp to be able to compute on all human-generated information.”
3 years ago