PRISM, the latest surveillance program leaked to the press, makes the collection of metadata from the three major phone companies seem quaintly old-fashioned. Its Big Brother implications are stunning from the standpoints of both technology and audacity.
I've written twice this week on how presidents routinely overstep the bounds when they are facing urgent security threats like war or al-Qaida, and how that should not be shocking, given the stakes. But PRISM, which reportedly allows the government to track people's Internet activities as they occur, does come as a shock.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/why-prism-is-different-and-scarier-than-other-nsa-spying-20130607
I've written twice this week on how presidents routinely overstep the bounds when they are facing urgent security threats like war or al-Qaida, and how that should not be shocking, given the stakes. But PRISM, which reportedly allows the government to track people's Internet activities as they occur, does come as a shock.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/why-prism-is-different-and-scarier-than-other-nsa-spying-20130607
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