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Brian Merchant<\/strong> The NSA has to collect the metadata from all of our phone calls<\/a>\u00a0because terrorists, right?\u00a0And the spy agency absolutely must intercept Skypes you conduct with folks out-of-state, or else\u00a0terrorism. It must sift through your iCloud data and Facebook status updates\u00a0too, because\u00a0Al Qaeda<\/em>.<\/p>\n Terrorists\u00a0are everywhere, they are legion, they are dangerous, and, unfortunately, they don\u2019t really do any of the stuff described above.<\/p>\n Even though the still-growing surveillance state<\/a> that\u00a0sprung up in the wake of 9\/11 was enacted\u00a0almost entirely to \u201cfight\u00a0terrorism,\u201d reports show that the modes of communication that agencies like the NSA are targeting are scarcely used by terrorists at all.<\/p>\n Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n <!– <\/p>\n –><\/p>\n This article was posted: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 4:38 pm<\/p>\n Tags: terrorism<\/a><\/p>\n
Motherboard Vice<\/a>
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