In the latter half, private investigator specializing in electronic counter-measures, Roger Tolces, suggested that the massive NSA surveillance of American citizens, as well as in other countries, is a form of electronic harassment. This is a demonstration of when a great empire goes into decline, in this case, using surveillance to retain its power, he remarked. The NSAs new million-square-foot data center in Utah will process metadata from such sources as emails and cell phones, including locations, phone numbers and other details. While they claim not to be listening to the content of calls or reading emails, Tolces believes its still a violation of 4th amendment rights. It would be as if the government back in 1777 kept an ongoing list of everyone you communicated with in case later on they wanted to form a charge of conspiracy...just based on linking their associations, Tolces commented. The NSAs mission was only to deal with foreign intelligence, but they have expanded to the point where they are like a 4th wing of government that was not ever put into place by the Founding Fathers, he continued. He also cited privacy concerns around planned black boxes for new cars that will have an Android platform which will share GPS data with the government. He speculated that the ultimate plan may be to charge drivers a mileage-related fee. coasttocoastam/show/2014/01/29
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