Facebook Just Announced a Controversial Move that is Going to Infuriate the Police State
As the dubious provisions of the PATRIOT Act expired last night at
midnight, the NSA began rolling up its cords, turned off their computer
monitors and took to rewriting their resumes to find new work. Oh wait,
sorry, that didn’t happen at all.
No surveillance sites have been shut down, no NSA employees have been
laid off, and business as usual went off without a hitch this morning.
If the government has proven anything over the last decade and a
half, it’s that they are not afraid of lying. Assange, Manning, and
Snowden have all exposed illegal functions of the US government that we
were told never existed.
The bottom line is that short of a radical change in the US
government, domestic spying will continue; regardless of the public dog
and pony shows implying otherwise.
More and more Americans realize the need to keep their information private and companies are responding to this demand.
Last year Google and Apple responded
to this demand by offering their customers encryption technology that
protects users’ privacy. The next big name to jump on the bandwagon of
encryption is the social media giant, Facebook.
