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THEY’RE WATCHING YOU. They’re watching everything you do online. You’d think we were being paranoid, but it’s part of their mission statement; the US government is part of the international Five Eyes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes) group of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States, which have worked together since World War II to collate and share intelligence, and that includes the Internet use of citizens.
In the digital age, that means intercepting, storing, and analyzing all Internet traffic. Don’t be fooled into thinking that local laws can stop a nation state from spying on its own citizens. If you’re one of the Five Eyes, just get your buddy overseas to do the spying, then report back. Tempora (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora), a UK program, splices off the undersea fiber-optic backbone of the Internet, duplicating all the data transmitted over it, with the NSA sharing that data. Damn crafty, those Brits, described by Edward Snowden as “worse than the US.”
But back at home, programs such as PRISM created a legal framework for the NSA to spy on targeted US citizens, immunizing co-operating US companies from prosecution. Or take MUSCULAR for bulk copying of Google and Yahoo! data to outside of US territory, for the NSA and GCHQ to rifle through at their leisure. And
