The NSA Is Spying On Everything, On All Your Digital Communications. “They’re Collecting Content Word for Word” | Global Research
The NSA Is Spying On Everything, On All Your Digital Communications. “They’re Collecting Content Word for Word” | Global Research
But people are getting distracted from the big picture by focusing on metadata.
As security expert Bruce Schneier wrote yesterday:
What frustrates me about all of this — [the Privacy and
Civil Liberties Oversight Board] report, the president’s speech, and so
many other things — is that they focus on the bulk collection of cell
phone call records. There’s so much more bulk collection going on — phone calls, e-mails, address books, buddy lists, text messages, cell phone location data, financial documents, calendars, [smartphone apps] etc. — and we really need legislation and court opinions on it all. But because cell phone call records were the first disclosure, they’re what gets the attention.
Indeed, Schneier confirmed last October what we’ve been saying for years … don’t get too distracted by the details, because the government is spying on everything:
Honestly, I think the details matter less and less. We have to assume that the NSA has EVERYONE who uses electronic communications under CONSTANT surveillance. New details about hows and whys will continue to emerge …but the big picture will remain the same.
