NSA Slides Explain The PRISM Data-Collection Program

I agree.  They're even implementing that old favorite of totalitarian states, "Get people to inform on each other."  I think that one goes back to the Roman empire, when the Romans didn't have enough Romans to police the people in the other countries they occupied they rewarded foreign civilians who informed on their friends, families and neighbors.  And variations on that theme - Instead of repealing the Patriot Act and dismantling the FISA courts and the NSA, the NSA is instituting a 'buddy system' to prevent a repeat of Edward Snowden.
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