The NSA - thirty years ago
Security guru Bruce Schneier
points to an article in the New York Times from 1983 regarding overreach of the National Security Agency:
1983 Article on the NSA
The moral is that NSA surveillance overreach has been going on for a long, long time.
We do need surveillance. Our immigration policy is so lax that we now have foreign terrorist sleeper cells in the US. That being said, the blanket capture of all communications, even just metadata, is unconscionable and in direct violation of our rights as granted in the Constitution.
If they want the data, they need to profile and get a warrant first.
Posted by DaveH at September 2, 2013 12:06 PM