I find the whole Tik Tok hysteria hypocritically humorus. Do people even realize that the NSA listens/reads every phone call/text made in the US 24/7 365? Just think about how much info the agency collects on us over a year. This is all done under the ever expanding umbrella of National Security reasons. Do folks really think that FB, IG, Twitter or any other platform Isn't collecting data on individuals worldwide,for the government. It's all totes bullshit...And don't get me started on the balloon fiasco..
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It is simply not possible to listen to every phone call or text in this country. There is not enough manpower or enough computers with the capacity for retrieving and storing that much information. They do not care what the average citizen is doing as long as you pay your taxes, they could care less about what you are doing. If your name shows up in the radical groups in this country, then they will follow what you are doing. You are not as important as you would like to think.
Sticks48
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Mar 23, 2023
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Not so much..Snowden blw the whistle on the NSA..[aclu.org]
@Sticks48 think they're not interested? Then why prosecute Snowden?
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@Charlene l'm just not buying it for the reasons l stated. They don't have the manpower or computer capabilities or capacity to pay attention to what we are all doing on a daily basis. That is just silly and not possible. There isn't one high tech expert that hasn't said the governments computer systems and the people who run them are not archaic. I will not lose one minute of sleep worrying about the government listening in and watching my every phone call or text.
Not that it will matter to you but do you think there's a difference between a foreign enemy government having all of your data versus the United States having it?
lerlo
Level 8
Mar 23, 2023
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Not sure anything could rain on your parade but if the law is something you think about, this will explain why your 24/7 365 days comment is let's just say trumpish. Assuming a third of the US population has a phone it would take a minimum of 100 million NSA employees to listen to every call, and that's only if they worked 24/7 365 days a year. No bathroom breaks, no meals, no sleep. No wonder the US unemployment rate is at a 50-year low
lerlo
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Mar 23, 2023
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Guess you missed that whole Patriot Act thingy..or super computers.
@Charlene current proof as of this moment that it's happening 24/7/365 days a year. Not something that may have happened once in your life come on come on where's the proof? You know you don't have any but I see you're relying on some chemo to justify strange statements so I'll be waiting for the proof you don't have
Again super computers..no need for human help in the data mining ops..
@Charlene again you're making it up but apparently you like conspiracy theories. You seriously believe that a supercomputer, (just one?) listens to every single phone call made in the United States of America and reads every single text? Would you like to explain how they connect to each call?
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@lerlo Human analysis comes last in modern online intelligence gathering. f they wanted to, they could go back and look at your online history. If you want a human to be involved, put in key words or phrases to help them out eg American, bomb, terrorist etc etc. They have boring lives these poor analysts, so try to make their day at times
Edward Snowden is always an interesting interview, and a few years ago he's where I discovered that Amazon makes A LOT of money by storing a lot of the recordings by the CIA, NSA, etc ... recordings of everyone, all the time, wherever they can get it, and no matter how innocuous, they have no intention of destroying any of it. Not all of Jeff's billions are from selling products.
Lauren
Level 8
Mar 23, 2023
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They do now. Up until a few years ago the NSA could honestly say they did not monitor US citizens, they had the British GCHQ arm of the UK security forces do it for them, and in return the NSA monitored the UK internet traffic, with both volunteering items of interest to one another as and when "appropriate".
It was one of the disgusting little scams leaked by those two "dastardly traitors" Snowdon and Assange
LenHazell53
Level 9
Mar 23, 2023
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Snowden wasn't a traitor. He actually used his info to inform the rest of us on the internal spying..
@Charlene You're right of course I was being sarcastic about the way his truth has been spun by the US media and gov. as bad thing.
@LenHazell53 ahhh, sorry my irony radar is off, due to chemo brain thing..hope you understand...
@Charlene Of course, your irony radar may be malfunctioning but your moral radar is as sharp as ever 
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