According to the Daily Ticker’s Henry Blodget: news stories
published over the past couple of days have revealed just how much information
the U.S. National Security Agency collects about the communications of hundreds
of millions of people around the world.
The Guardian, for example, reported that Verizon has been
sending the U.S.
government "metadata" about all of its telephone records so the
government can analyze who is talking to who, when, and where.
The Washington Post followed up with an even more shocking
story, which said that the government "directly [taps] into the central
servers" of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, and other leading tech
companies and monitors communications in real time...
Not surprisingly, the revelation that the U.S. government collects and
analyzes trillions of global communications has freaked out not just privacy
advocates but ordinary citizens. And now
that the extent of the government's intelligence program has been revealed,
it's certainly worth having a national conversation about how much information
the government should have access to and what legal hurdles investigators
should have to clear when they collect and analyze specific information about
specific people….
Find out more at http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/
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