#USA senator about #Verizon's #NSA-mandated mass #surveillance of citizens : “This is nothing particularly new... Every member of the United States Senate has been advised of this” !
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/administration-lawmakers-defend-nsa-program-to-collect-phone-records/2013/06/06/2a56d966-ceb9-11e2-8f6b-67f40e176f03_print.html #privacy
Justifying mass surveillance is like saying “searches of homes can be useful to find murder weapons... So we searched everyone’s home”. If the NSA collects everything, then secrecy isn’t about avoiding to “tip off the target” - it is about avoiding legitimate public outrage.
