New Snowden Docs: NSA Can Easily See Your Entire Internet Life

or when that data starts getting sold to companies.

That's not what the NSA does.

1. We're discussing the NSA, not the TSA.
2. The NSA is about gaining information that nobody knows it has.
3. The NSA isn't going to sell anything or advertise itself willingly. If it had it's way, nobody would know the agency even existed.

The only agency in the entire United States Government that is impervious to corruption of any kind.

Nice try

Nice try

Edit: Since you edited your post. Fine, find an AG willing to prosecute these alleged "criminals" and take them to court. That's not what this thread is about. Back on topic, the NSA isn't going to sell your info to the MPAA/RIAA.

You mean as opposed to the Russians who signed into law the capability to change the content of emails in transit via deep packet inspection.

Read the Constitution of the United States of America. We're supposed to be better than that. Until not long ago (in the grand scheme of things), we were.

The fact that this agency considers itself above the law, above all oversite is reprehensible. They lie to the very body responsible for their oversite. To me, it is more than enough grounds for Congress to place so much oversite requirement on this agency that their employees should not be allowed to use the restroom without a full roll call vote in both houses. They have betrayed the public trust.

Their actions hardly violate the Constitution, other than the right to privacy perhaps.

Perhaps, but it's a holdover from the Cold War days where the biggest leaks came from those who oversaw such agencies: Congress.

They are violating the constitution which they all swore to defend and uphold. They are spying on American Citizens who have been accused of no crime (prohibited in many laws). They have participated in the extra judicial killings of American Citizens (including a 16 year old child accused of no crime). The list goes on and on. If you want to run a fascist state, find somewhere else, move there and do it. I, and more and more like me will NOT stand idly by.

As to the metadata, from the amount of lies coming from this regime, I highly doubt that is all they are gathering.

Actually, it was made legal by the ratified and extended Patriot Act.

What extra-judicial killings?

So this is beyond the scope of the NSA, and applies to the Obama Administration and other agencies as well.

Talking louder won't really solve anything imo. There's nothing you can really do to change it.

They have the ability if it's approved by the Supreme Court. Like it or not, that's how it works and had worked. It worked for Roe V. Wade, for the Civil Rights Act, and for the Patriot Act.

The only 17 year old in the news recently was the Zimmerman case and there was nothing extra-judicial about it.

Armed revolt, cause that never causes any problems. Should that happen I can guarantee total financial collapse, and the breakup of the Union.

Except then you run the risk of having all rulings invalidated, not just recent ones.

As far as the extra-judicial killings goes, it's far reaching I admit, and the implementation is poor, but the logic is sound if they are "an imminent threat of a violent attack against the United States". Sometimes it's just not possible to bring them back to face trial.

It's not imminent according to anyone who knows anything about economics. The government is a different story, as the deficit is every growing that's to rampant spending. We have no need to "appease" them with our dollars since in reality we help keep them afloat. Remember that their economy isn't anywhere near the same as ours in the way it is run and decisions are made.

I highly disagree with that statement, and firmly believe nothing good could come of it. At the first sign of hostilities there will be a massive brain drain as anyone smart or rich enough to leave the country, would. Freedoms are somewhat secondary to personal safety in this particular case. That and the fact that I"m sure most people like where they live, hence a popular uprising to breakaway is likely to be small in likelihood, and fractious.

Actually, it was made legal by the ratified and extended Patriot Act.

The 'pro-surveillance' crowd doesn't even try to argue that it is constitutional, they argue that it is necessary.

Back on topic, the NSA isn't going to sell your info to the MPAA/RIAA.

The MPAA and RIAA would love to get their hands on some of that data.

just wait until the NSA gets hacked.

With that much data, something is sure to come up not matter what.

Plus think of anything you've ever said or done being taken out of context, than multiply that by 1000.

This is scary stuff if you ask me.

The woman who screened Snowden actually lied on her resume, and passed a lot of people without actually doing any kind of check.

Hire fewer contractors and problem solved.

Hire fewer contractors and problem solved.

Google has been collecting crap on us far longer than the NSA. Perhaps it's somewhat more "anonymous" than the NSA's data but I'd bet we'd be surprised at what Google can determine about us just based on our on-line activity.