True story here… One of my friend was like Steve Jobs who hack into phone systems as a teen. The FBI raided his house and confiscated his computer. Ever since he sees a vast surveillance conspiracy. It’s paranoid. Sure there is vast data sweeps. But there aren’t enough surveillance agents to read your facebook posts and read your mails, and to monitor your boring life.[/quote]
They have computers for that. Yes, your emails, posts, phone calls, etc. are being screened…by computers. Anything that is flagged is then reviewed by humans. If they notice a trend of suspicious communications, then you might end up on their radar, and your communications will be monitored by humans. He’s a conspiracy theorist, and he’s right. Just because you’re less informed about it, that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.
Along those same lines, just because you don’t see something as racist, sexist, or homophobic, etc., that doesn’t mean that it’s not.
This is just one data center/program (their largest, I believe). There are others.
