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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBorowitz Report: N.S.A. Compensates for Loss of Surveillance Powers by Logging on to Facebook
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)The National Security Agency is compensating for the expiration of its power to collect the American peoples personal information by logging on to Facebook, the agency confirmed on Monday.
The director of the N.S.A., Admiral Michael S. Rogers, said that when parts of the Patriot Act expired at midnight on Sunday, intelligence analysts immediately stopped collecting mountains of phone metadata and started reading billions of Facebook updates instead.
From a surveillance point of view, the transition has been seamless, Rogers said.
While the N.S.A. has monitored Facebook in the past, it is now spending twenty-four hours a day sifting through billions of baby pictures, pet videos, and photographs of recently enjoyed food to detect possible threats to the United States.
Those status updates contain everything we want to know, Rogers said. In many cases, a good deal more than we want to know.
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Borowitz Report: N.S.A. Compensates for Loss of Surveillance Powers by Logging on to Facebook (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jun 2015
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TDale313
(7,820 posts)1. ain't it the truth.
They don't have to invade our privacy- we've relinquished it voluntarily.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)2. There is a big difference between sousveillance and surveillance.
With the former, we are all watching ourselves.
With the latter, an authority is watching us.
While sousveillance may be discomfiting, unrestrained surveillance by government directly and severely undercuts democracy.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)5. you forgot the third surveillance. The corporations are watching us.
Although I'm sure the most cynical would just say the government is nothing but a corporate subsidiary.
But still, it does bear mentioning.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)3. That explains that friend request
I don't get very many of those. Should have been a little more careful. Will the NSA be upset if I un-friend them again so quickly?
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)4. I did a really loud snort-laugh at the thread title.