General News US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data

So now the military knows I'm trans. Do you think they'd come out to all my friends for me? It'd remove a lot of hassle for me.

 

What creeps me out is that the NSA compound is about 20 minutes from here...

*shivers*

 

Do they actually look through EVERYONE'S files? I mean, there are so many people living just in the UK, and they all probably generate hundreds of millions of communication material (phone calls, e-mails etc.) DAILY, that it would likely take years to go through it all.

 

With supercomputers programmed to recognize certain patterns...well it's faster than Google...as for Google, any company that has as its motto: "Don't be Evil" makes me nervous...

 

I just don't understand the NSA's motive. The UK is our ally, Germany is our ally, France is our ally, WHY do we need to have information on them? WHo else are we listening to? There's just no reason...

I just do not understand the NSA's motives >:/

 

Could you go for a walk over there and tell me what I was doing on 11th January 2006 please? Ta x

The spying doesn't really bother me; I've got nothing to hide and whilst others may say the 'nothing to hide' excuse has fallacies in it, I've yet to buy one. I'd rather they be transparent about exactly what they're spying on, yanno, just to prove they've got nothing to hide too. It's only fair.

The US covertly spying on EU institutions, when the EU are their own allies was fucked up though.

 

I mostly agree, but if the "nothing to hide" thing were true, the government of the US wouldn't be so frightened of leaks.

 

Nixon was impeached for wiretapping a hotel and now Bush and Obama has wiretapped us all?

One can only speculate what they can do with all our personal information with their various super-computers.

 

That depends on the government being 100% trustworthy with the data, and only using it to apprehend terrorists. There are many, many ways they could use the data for other purposes. I've never had much faith in the integrity of government, for reasons I don't think I need to explain. Furthermore, the issues aren't to do with having nothing to hide, but to do with the right to privacy. Government has no right to decide that just because citizens are law-abiding, that their privacy doesn't matter.