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
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