NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060511/ts_usatoday/nsahasmassivedatabaseofamericansphonecalls;_ylt=Aq8Fg1gLZKEt.U5SL3bgHP_B4FkB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

-monz

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@...> wrote:
>
Monz

I don't remember the plot of this moive, but somewhere in
it Gene Hackmen's character says:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/taglines

The only privacy left is inside of your head.

Then there are these too:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/quotes

Too much to read Monz. I just need something to do now.

-Stephen

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Memorable Quotes from
Enemy of the State (1998)

Robert Clayton Dean: What the hell is happening?
Brill: I blew up the building.
Robert Clayton Dean: Why?
Brill: Because you made a phone call.

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Why are they after me?

Brill: You have something they want.
Robert Clayton Dean: I don't have anything.
Brill: Maybe you do and you don't know it.

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The government's been in bed with the entire telecommunications
industry since the forties. They've infected everything.

Brill: They get into your bank statements, computer files, email,
listen to your phone calls... Every wire, every airwave. The more
technology used, the easier it is for them to, keep tabs on you.
Brill: It's a brave new world out there. At least it better be.

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[The NSA team is watching satellite footage of a conversation
between Dean and Brill on a rooftop]

Jones: Can we get a feature scan of the guy with him?
Fiedler: No, he's smart, he never looks up.
Jones: So?
Fiedler: The satellite is 155 miles above the Earth. It can only
look straight down.
Jones: That's a bit limited, isn't it?
Fiedler: [Sarcastically] Well, maybe you should design a better one.
Jones: Maybe I will.
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[On TV] We knew that we had to monitor our enemies. We've also come
to realise that we need to monitor the people who are monitoring
them...

Carla Dean: Well who's gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors.
Robert Clayton Dean: I wouldn't mind doing a little monitoring
myself.
Carla Dean: Yes, and you've got lots and lots of monitoring to do.
Eric Dean: Are you guys talking about sex?

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--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "stephenszpak"
<stephen_szpak@...> wrote:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/12/politics/main1613877.shtml

Two New Jersey public interest lawyers sued Verizon Communications
Inc. for $5 billion Friday, claiming the phone carrier violated
privacy laws...

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/11/9348/10713

I have Verizon wireless and landline accounts and I just called to
cancel my landline because I don't use it at all. Ironically, when
I was on hold the hold message said "Privacy of your account is your
right and our duty." I guess not when Big Brother is involved.

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-Stephen

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "stephenszpak"
<stephen_szpak@...> wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

ECHELON is a highly secretive world-wide signals intelligence and
analysis network run by the UKUSA Community. [1] ECHELON can capture
radio and satellite communications, telephone calls, faxes and e-
mails nearly anywhere in the world and includes computer automated
analysis and sorting of intercepts. [2] ECHELON is estimated to
intercept up to 3 billion communications every day[citation needed

"The United States will occasionally have the United Kingdom keep an
eye on individuals in this country [meaning inside the US], with the
understanding that if Britain turns up any interesting tidbits, it
will slide them across the table." - from the book, "CHATTER:
Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping"

-Stephen

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

Don't forget

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28FBI%29

-Carl

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@...> wrote:
>

Thanks Carl,

I'll have to remember Carnivore (apparently DCS1000, now).

The thing about ECHELON is that even if there was a law
or amendment that prohibited the spying of a U.S. intelligence
agency on U.S. cititens, the British could still give away
anything they wish to the CIA.

-Stephen