Posted on 06/11/2013 11:14:34 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 06/11/2013 11:23:39 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
Wednesday morning ping! Have a great day, y’all! And God bless.
Establish a private sector consortium to work with natsec on behalf of the citizens.
Congress has failed miserably in its responsibilities.
The National Security Agency's Utah Data Center, according to a whistleblower, when completed, will have a capacity of five Zettabytes.
As far as violations of privacy: I'll see your zettabyte (ZB) and raise you a yottabyte (YB). You, Mr President are a national disgrace!
The Wheels Of Tyranny Are Turning
They already did...it's called Booz Allen Hamilton.
Good Morning Utah! The fact that King Bozo Overlord can now blackmail everyone (or almost) in America is quite a feat...shows what a socialist dictator is really made of...
Your sentence is an insult to innocent failures.
The US Congress has gone out of its way to help al Qaeda
and to savage the American people.
They are traitors to the US Constitution.
That's just what this country needs! Giving the Obama Administration expanded authority to conduct background checks on people, to include their medical records.
I thought these companies said these links didnt exist???
Can I offer additional suggestions (privately) that may take these gems you write, and polish them to even more stellar levels?
Several politicians are currently saying this is all legal but citizens couldn’t get a court hearing on it because they couldn’t prove they were spied on due to the secrecy and thus didn’t have standing.
Whoops, caught in an outright lie.
and when the testimony is over ... all the tech companies will have lied. It (the lies) will pay well though.
Most transparent PRISM ever?
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Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers. | …we have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government - or any other government - direct access to our servers. |
We hadn’t even heard of PRISM before yesterday. | We had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday. |
When governments ask Facebook for data, we review each request carefully to make sure they always follow the correct processes and all applicable laws, and then only provide the information if is required by law. We will continue fighting aggressively to keep your information safe and secure. | …we provide user data to governments only in accordance with the law. Our legal team reviews each and every request, and frequently pushes back when requests are overly broad or don’t follow the correct process. |
We have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking for information or metadata in bulk, like the one Verizon reportedly received. And if we did, we would fight it aggressively. | Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received - an order that appears to have required them to hand over millions of users’ call records. We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false. |
We strongly encourage all governments to be much more transparent about all programs aimed at keeping the public safe. | this episode confirms what we have long believed - there needs to be a more transparent approach. |
It’s the only way to protect everyone’s civil liberties and create the safe and free society we all want over the long term. | And, of course, we understand that the U.S. and other governments need to take action to protect their citizens’ safety - including sometimes by using surveillance. But the level of secrecy around the current legal procedures undermines the freedoms we all cherish. |
Later
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Thank you so much for this outstanding essay, dear JohnHuang2!
“...I thought these companies said these links didnt exist???...”
They outright lied to their clientele. And now that the SHTF and they’re caught red-handed, it’s starting to hit their income, that almighty dollar they all worship. So now, they’re begging the government to let them try to smooth it over with their customers.
I’d say it’s a little late girls & boys. The horse is already outta the barn. Each of em had their chance to do the right thing and stand up to this tyranny. Instead, they all caved in to the communists. I hope they all go belly-up, bankrupt, dead in the ditch, broke. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch.
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