It recently came out that the NSA (US) is using a program called PRISM to data mine info on pretty much everyone across the globe.
Information they acquired trough spying: Over 97 Billion pieces of information, ranging from communication transcripts to Google searches.
Now the government claims they did not spy on American civilians (cause that would be against the constitution) but in the meantime, they also claim they can't be sure of all the ID's en whereabouts related to a communication transcript. Basically: They can't be sure that they never spied on American Civilians.
I'm curious about your stance on the fact that America thinks they can spy on whoever they please, and i'm also kind of curious why a topic about this has not been opened yet... But that's a whole different matter in it's own. Lets discuss PRISM and in-consensual espionage!
Do the means justify the end?
Is this a breach of Privacy?
Please refrain from derailing this to a "Obama & Romney" thread.
PRISM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(...lance_program)