(06-02-2014, 12:19 AM)velvetfog Wrote: What about this?
Spying on the United Nations
Spying on United Nations leaders by United States diplomats
what's your point?
i support the united states' efforts to spy on any organization attempting to take over the world.
(06-02-2014, 04:37 AM)srijantje Wrote: and this........
www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/01/27/edward-snowden-nsa-conducts-economic-spying
but of course everybody would do it if they have a chance,why be hypocritical about it/
i'm assuming you are trying to say that china is doing the same thing... and you'd be wrong. china is stealing information related to advancing their military and commercial technologies.
we are just spying. just like EVERY OTHER COUNTRY ON THE PLANET DOES.
so, the rest of the world can sit around and bitch and cry about it like usual... and discuss it while you share your lip gloss.
the fact of the matter is that much like the movie and music industries, you need to catch up with the times.
metadata has existed for decades. the only difference between now and then is that we now have the technology to process all that information (still not nearly as much information as google has on you). privacy is just a legal term at the end of the day and that legal term is dictated by a privacy policy. those privacy policies are determined by the people.
the only problem i have with my government invading your fictitious sense of privacy is that it would be a colossal waste of time... if they want to learn about isolated mountain living with yaks or stupid nordic-canadian things, they can dick around on wikipedia.
fact: the only people concerned about this are the same people who believe that the government is trying to kill them by fluoridating their water supply.