You already have zero privacy – get over it

Scott McNealy

The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable.

Anon., U. S. Privacy Study Commission, 1977

We warned that changes in such rules would aid the already vast spying architecture that the federal government has aimed directly at the American people.

This week, a report in the Wall Street Journal issues the very same warning, noting that the NCTC can use the data it collates from every US intelligence agency’s database, and analyze it to to predict possible criminal behavior of any U.S. citizen.

The WSJ report notes how a head “privacy officer” at the Department of Homeland Security explained to the Obama administration that the new privacy busting powers provided to the NCTC would bring about a “sea change”.

http://www.infowars.com/

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

David Brin

Also might be a good idea to read Black List by Brad Thor for the fictional version of what’s going on.

If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google