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"Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever," ~ CIA's chief technology officer Ira Gus Hunt
Your call may be logged in a databank somewhere but odds are that nobody will ever know what was said unless they have a reason to look it up.
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
reply to post by Hopechest
Your call may be logged in a databank somewhere but odds are that nobody will ever know what was said unless they have a reason to look it up.
... so it's ok if they store everything because most of it never gets looked at again?
You seem to be missing the point here. I proved you wrong and now you're clinging to straws.
Originally posted by Hopechest
...my point is valid and directly on target.
Originally posted by loam
reply to post by Hopechest
Originally posted by Hopechest
...my point is valid and directly on target.
But essentially meaningless...and the further we move through time, the more meaningless it becomes.edit on 8-4-2013 by loam because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Hopechest
If you would like to criticize me that is fine but why don't you send it through a message so you don't detract from what is otherwise a nice thread topic.
You are being disrespectful to the OP.
You proved that governments are going to actively monitor every single phone call?
I must have missed that part. And I never said it was OK for them to store the information, I only said it wasn't possible to monitor every call.
Big Brother does make a little sense but not to the extent where we are going.
They want to monitor every phone call, soon every call on the planet, or maybe that's already happening.