For most people they really are not a threat to the state, even allowing for cat pictures. It is probably a backlash in the US particularly against big government which is what the Tea Party etc are complaining about.

Our politicians want it for various reasons. If there was series of incidents it would look bad for them either because of past policy or current policy. The fact the some businesses want it as well also helps.


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US NSA 'probed fewer than 300 phone calls'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22925892

'The UK on our behalf? Erm...'

The fact that they've even had to put a number out doesn't bode well for them, but they won't be shutting it down officially or unofficially any time soon.

ION, I'm wondering what effect if any this will have on the Person of Interest storylines...

That sounds like a very low number when they say that there are 2000 persons of interest in the UK alone. If there are safeguards to stop tapping all of us it should blow over. Part of the problem is that they expand the role at the slightest hint of trouble.


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Apple denies any knowledge of Prism, releases the details to prove it

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/ ... it-1159479

I think under the legislation that they have in the US you cannot even admit receiving data requests for information under the law.


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I laughed at Yahoo making a statement - nobody had even wondered what their part was!

I think that they were trying to sound relevant. Most of their users now are in Asia. So they would have probably been a target of the NSA program.

Mueller: FBI uses drones for surveillance over US soil

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22976598

I'm guessing that's what Google boy's comments were actually about previously.

The FBI have responsibility for domestic terrorism and various crime fighting so this is a natural progression of the technology to crime fighting. It will happen here.

Allegedly the NSA's public enemy number one is headed to Moscow

Ex-CIA analyst Edward Snowden arrives in Russia having left Hong Kong and he could be heading to Venezuela - has help from Wikileaks

http://news.sky.com/story/1107174/whist ... -in-moscow

Everybody seems so determined to say where he's going after hosting him

So when the blokes in balaclavas boot down the door they can say 'No, no, he's over there!'

As I've just read on twitter

"So hang on - Edward Snowden's been charged with espionage for refusing to spy on people? And they say Americans don't do irony."

Well I wonder if Putin told Obama at the G8 meeting that he was going to Moscow?

Vladimir Putin confirms that US whistleblower Edward Snowden is at an airport in Moscow but says he will not be extradited.

http://news.sky.com/story/1107989/edwar ... xtradition

Putin must be laughing his balls off.