[privacy] 27B Stroke 6: Why the NSA Phone Database Story Matters

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Ryan Singel over on 27B Stroke 6:

[snip]

Watching the sky lighten at 5 a.m. this morning during my cab ride home from the TV studio where I groggily joined a 
Democracy Now! discussion of the revelation that three of the largest phone companies are turning over their call 
database to the NSA for a data-mining operation , I realized what I'd failed to get across in that show and during the 
Open Source show I joined yesterday afternoon.

You can't understand yesterday's news without thinking of it as one more known component of an architecture of 
surveillance.

Here are some of the known and alleged pieces.

[snip]

Much, mMuch more here:
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1478704

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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