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Mark Zuckerberg, on testifying before congress. Zuckerberg is the CEO of Facebook, now under review by congress for possible charges of invasion of privacy and selling of information to non Facebook agencies.  One could call this approved internal hacking. Basic conclusions. 1.         If he stumbles before the lights, he will not be the first. 2.         He will make platitudes to personal rights, as programmed by his personal handlers. 3.         He may state our users agreed to the surrender of their information, never understanding some of it is fundamentally in error. 4.         The poor lad really does not appreaciate right from wrong.  For him, it is purely operational. Typical coder thinking. 5.         He may state in post-testimony interviews, he was not understood. How to question Zuckerberg. 1.         Ask him what is the word-length of the user agreement their users accept. 2.         Ask him how many actually read the agreement – or simply click on

The time has come to seriously consider the implications of all the data the US government is collecting and consuming about its citizens.    For the first time in all of history, a government can peer into the private communications and by deflection the private thoughts of its citizens.   First, with the full neural net of information of interconnections between people, it must now be assumed to be known the full interconnectivity of persons of note.   Not just potential terrorists but politicians, would-be politicians, authors, commentators, newscasters, executives, even pundits, and more are swept up by this net.       If you have “arrived” you are known and fully analyzed.   Your habits are known, your pleasures are known, and so also are your friends.       A little background comes first. About Edward Snowden, the now high profile leak in the NSA snooping scandal.   It is not what he did at this point, it is about what information he carried with him.   This fellow se