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Originally Posted by DWB
But that's the thing, where does it end? 2013 they are just seeing who calls who. Or so they say. By 2018 they are listening to every call, reading every email, sms, and watching every video chat. By then Americans will say exactly what is being said now, "we'll it's a hard call, they are only listening to everything we do, at least they are not bugging our bedroom and making us get RFID implants to track all of our movements." Then by 2022 they are making RFID chip implants mandatory, and so on and so forth. All of this stuff is a VERY slippery slope.
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All of this information is being collected no matter what. Facebook and Gmail and Skype and ICQ track every conversation you ever have, while your ISP keeps records too. Your cell phone company tracks your location via cell towers, as well as everyone you talk to.
The government doesn't store this information, but everyone else does. This is already happening; It's been happening for a long time back when Ma Bell was running the nation wide phone system. The only difference is it's become a lot easier to transmit vast amounts of information.
Everyone is making this out to be like the federal government is reading the emails of hundreds of thousands of Americans. This isn't the case. Facebook gave out the number of ten thousand over the past five years, and that the vast majority of these aren't from the federal government but instead from local police departments - Missing persons cases and other related investigations.