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They've kinda already done that. They were spying on the computers of the Senate Intelligence Committee...

Right, but if I die, I don't want people accessing my phone after death. They can still get call and text metadata from the phone companies for 90+ days. In fact, I think even the …

Wrong. It's a big part of it, but many enjoy the power. Many want an opportunity to just steal from you personally. Many want to get their numbers up and be the officer with the mo…

Police don't get reprimanded in America. They just get paid vacation at worst. Shoot a handcuffed guy in the back of your squad car? "Oh, he must have had a gun we just didn't find…

No, I think it's related to Facebook being a PRISM company and having a deplorable privacy policy, and generally giving no shits about privacy or security. Also, Mark's internet.or…

Yes; the entirety of our internet infrastructure is...almost...hopelessly insecure. The OpenSSL team refuses to even use SSL/TLS on their website because "they don't want anyone to…

They use thermal cameras and stingrays. This is not technology that the public has access to. If traffic and CCTV cameras had thermal and cell-interception capabilities, people mig…

"require"--cute. Even if "required" in all states including federally, who oversees this to ensure that said requirements are being followed? What keeps them from using it anyway? …

It's not about oversight. They don't need to be spying on citizens whom are neither suspected of a crime nor have a warrant against them. I don't give a fuck it it solves crimes; I…

No, no. The FBI planes have "Stringray" devices on board and pick up people's private calls and their IMSI IDs. They also have FLIR/high-res cameras. This shit is not "public" when…

The FBI planes circle cities for hours and hours, equipped with Stingrays and FLIR cameras. This has no place in a free society, period. The "orwelianness" is pretty dead-on-balls …

Another average white guy here. I've had over 100 interactions with the police. More than 60% of the time, I was doing nothing wrong at all. Just gotta live in the wrong neighborho…

Microsoft is still a PRISM company, so I'm sure the NSA will still be able to access search data.

They've been actively censoring stories about Pao for months. This is nothing new.

What exactly do you think is good, okay, or normal about In-Q-Tel, the CIA's VC firm, having connections to the world's most popular social network... blows my mind.

You forgot Rand Paul, R-KY.

See my comment above. It's not "symbolically a good thing"--the intelligence community wanted this. It just expands their powers. It's only symbolic effect is that now, the average…

No, the surveillance didn't stop; it's just fucking doublespeak. One of the circuit courts declared that PATRIOT section 215 doesn't actually authorize the bulk collection. So, the…

And then you remember where Facebook's initial funding sources came from....

Yeah, is this data right? Why do they have Software and UX people making over $250k?

Because equal access doesn't mean every group will be evenly-racially- and gender-distributed. Just read the title again to yourselves; doesn't this sound ridiculous? Maybe we shou…

> I love it when it's sunny Sonny girl you could be my Cher That's beautiful. Wow. Was that copied from something or did the algorithm come up with it on its own?

Yeah, everything would be "okay for everyone", but worse than the best we can get right now. I don't want "NHS" in America--I don't want the government having a say in my medical c…

Same shit, pedantism sucks.

I've read almost all of the comments here and I'm so confused... So I'm not going to be able to text my non-TextSecure friends with it anymore? And, if my data connection drops rig…