There's a new report Wednesday on the scale of surveillance by the National Security Agency: The Washington Post reports that the agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world.

The newspaper based its reporting on documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, as well as interviews with U.S. intelligence officials. The Post says the records feed a database that stores information about the locations of hundreds of millions of devices — at least. The Post reports:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/04/248848106/nsa-collecting-5b-cellphone-locations-a-day-news-report-says

Do read the full article on The Post's website, which also has a graphic that explains how the NSA tracks people.

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/how-the-nsa-is-tracking-people-right-now/634/

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

-Laelth

its not possible as i can say but if you can explain more better

Sweden would never do a thing like that! Perfect meld of socialism and capitalism! They're the ideal state!

Sweden colluded with the U.S. in falsely charging Julian Assange with sex crimes and would be indefinitely detained here in the U.S. (after Sweden extradition/rendetions JA).
Sweden's a flunky- just like Britain is.

This stuff is out of control. It goes beyond normal "spying" which involved spies on the ground gathering intelligence through intellect and personal connections. This is a massive dragnet swooping up information because its so easy to do when you have massive gathering capabilities and collusion with Telecom and Internet companies to record everything and store it indefinitely on Private Citizens.

The idea that only America spies is ridiculous as is the notion that we should unilaterally stop while everyone else spies on us.

Granted, it would be a better world if everyone stopped spying but that's not the world we have now, is it?
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Here's a *great* HuffPost piece from Halloween on the subject:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-thomson/oh-by-the-way-germany-spi_b_4184047.html

Yeah, none of this stuff is any sort of new and anyone who thinks Snowden is some sort of Digital-Age Zorro has been totally duped & misled by fools such as Greenwald and company.

Now if every country in the world agreed to consistent and enforceable laws regulating spying, who would argue with that? But I don't see that happening very soon.

Some spying is needed for international crime groups. Human trafficking. Black market organ sales. Child pedophile rings. Terrorists. It's an imperfect world.
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