Why is Prism So Bad, Really?

Over the last week or so there has been a lot of discussion about the recent leak by an NSA contract of the PRISM program.  A debate has raged in not only the mainstream media but also the alternative media as to why the PRISM program is a violation of our rights, why FISA courts are illegitimate and more importantly where do we go from here.

My intent here is not to discuss those topics, at this point many a talking head has isolated and over analysed the PRISM leak.  We know what it is, the snooping of META DATA about your phone calls. Of course this is only done when its dooly authorized by FISA, and of course you need to be doing something wrong right?  In reality the PRISM system is just datamining  all the meta data from your phone calls.  It is trapping the time, duration, source and target as well as location each time you pick up the phone to reach out and touch someone.

So we got that out of the way, but why is it dangerous?  That answer is actually quite simple.

For many years now the NSA has been datamining you, yes you.  They have been intercepting emails and web traffic via the Carnivore system, phone calls via Echelon (Haven’t heard that name in awhile) and now phone details from PRISM.  We also know that they have been actively datamining Google (They have a webpage you can check out! Of course they do..), Facebook and just about every other place you can go to do anything on the web.

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