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spying program feeding off itself
Daniel Patrick Welch
The US government’s spying program continues to grow because “it feeds on itself” and the American people should take action against such spying activities before it is too late, says American writer and activist Daniel Patrick Welch.
On Saturday, the New York Times reported the US National Security Agency has been using it huge collections of data on American citizens’ communications to construct sophisticated maps of their social connections.
The US spy agency has been using metadata, GPS locations, and voter records to identify Americans’ locations at certain times, their associates and travelling companions, and other personal information.
The administration of President Barack Obama defended the practice as perfectly legal and reasonable.
“People are clearly angry about it, more angry about the invasion of their privacy than they are fear-mongered into accepting it for national security,” said Welch in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday.
“One of the things you ask is ‘when is enough enough?’ and I don’t know when people will react in ways that will hurt the security state and that once they do, will it be too late? Because, their phone calls will be tapped and there will be no way to organize any resistance to it,” he added.
Since early June, documents disclosed by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden have blown the lid on a number of US spying programs including one for collecting Americans’ phone records and another, codenamed PRISM, for tracking the use of US-based Internet servers by all people around the world.
Other leaked documents have also shown that US spy agencies even conducted cyber-attacks and hacked into the computer systems of other countries’ diplomatic missions.
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/01/327102/us-spying-is-feeding-on-itself/
© 2013 Daniel Patrick Welch. Reprint permission granted with credit and link to http://www.danielpwelch.com. Writer, singer, linguist and activist Daniel Patrick Welch lives and writes in Salem, Massachusetts, with his wife, Julia. Together they run The Greenhouse School http://www.greenhouseschool.org. Translations of articles are available in over two dozen languages. Links to the website are appreciated.
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