guardians_song | Look, normally I try to filter the news a bit, but Drudge Report's headlines sum it up today.

NSA, FBI secretly mining data from Internet firms... 'THEY QUITE LITERALLY CAN WATCH YOUR IDEAS AS YOU TYPE'... Top secret PRISM program... MICROSOFTYAHOOGOOGLEYOUTUBEFACEBOOKSKYPEAPPLE... Obama administration collecting phone records of millions daily... Secret court order requires VERIZON to hand over ALL CALL DATA... White House: Critical tool against 'terrorist threats'... Specifically targeted Americans, not foreigners... 'Homeland Security': Laptops, phones can be searched based on hunches... NSA SEES ALL: Phone Sex, Banks, Emails... CIA: We'll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher... '1984' Published 64 Years Ago Today...Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.
I'm sorry. My icon does not convey the proper amount of rage. I'll just... put in an appropriate animation.

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