Yesterday it was revealed that the National Security Agency is collecting millions of phone records from Verizon:
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.
The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.
The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.
Today, the Wall Street Journal claims this extends to AT&T and Sprint customers, too. Yesterday, The Guardian revealed PRISM, a Top Secret NSA program to directly query social media servers owned Facebook, Google, Apple, and others.
I suppose the idea of “innocent until proven guilty” got left behind somewhere in the 20th century.
via NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily | World news | The Guardian.
I honestly don’t understand how this can be constitutional. This is vile. I also have to wonder if the intel community is doing this as through backdoors and espionage instead of through the corporate channels.
Google for one has adamantly denied this.