ALL YOUR DATA ARE BELONG TO US - US Government has direct access to ALL your online data!

You —

A confirmation that probably goes beyond most conspiracy theories and conspiracy films - but it is true.

Not only - through secret court orders nontheless - does the US government have access to all the telephone calls made in the US since 2006, but it also has direct access by all the data that has been collected by atleast Google, Facebook and Apple.

They know everything.

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Joie de Vivre — Fri, 7 Jun 2013 - 01:24

Pretty shocking but I take for granted that we are watched. Not worth worrying about too much, but it is true you wouldn't want to see overly powerful agencies of the state in the wrong hands. That for me is the worst case scenario, and on a small scale it happens all over the place, but I don't think we are being kept in line to the point where I really feel it. In Britain at least we all run this gig as best we can.

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(One of my favourite novelists is Anthony Burgess - best known for A Clockwork Orange - and he wrote a novel called 1985, which in its first part is an analysis of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and in its second is a work of fiction employing the same approach, considering the most extreme endgame of problems besetting Britain in the author's time. A dystopian Britain, culturally reduced to its lowest common denominator, sexualised and demoralised, is in the grip of trade unions who maintain a state of forced unemployed through strikes, giving rise to a political battle between the unions and wealthy Arabs who seek to assert Islam. It's irrelevant to your post but I think of it whenever people mention 1984, because I see bits of all the worst predictions here and there. Neither novel truly represents the balance between the people and the state.)

You — Fri, 7 Jun 2013 - 18:20

Yup, the new revelations are that the UK simply outsourced the spying to the US in order to get around the law.

The UK government has been trying to get a snooping charter in place to allow such things and they even attempted to hijack the recent murder to push for this.

Hummus — Sun, 9 Jun 2013 - 11:06

We have stalkers. I kid. If you're a decent person, they would have no reason to want to know such information about you, nor do they have the time or employees for that either. They probably have some sort of filter which detects suspicious and very repetitive words like 'bomb' for their counter terrorism strategies. Who knows. And even more important, these spies and people who do such stalking are accountable to the law too. 

And I came across something last night. It said that Google has issued a strong denial that it allows the US government to access its servers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22827368