“You have nothing to fear if you have done nothing wrong” is the mantra by those that push the global surveillance. Nothing to fear if you are not a threat. What are the threats? But what if you are not threat, but just ask awkward questions? What then? And surely most of us have done something wrong, we are not all like the popular Pope Francis and who defines what is wrong and what is to be feared? And who watches the watchers? Question questions so many questions.
“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place, but if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines including Google do retain this information for some time, and it’s important, for example that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities.
Banksy Graffiti art : – “what are you looking at”
All this faulty reasoning is built upon the “Nothing to hide argument” that is the stick used to beat the privacy argument. A journalist in the Leveson inquiry into press standards in the UK famously said~
Paedophiles need privacy Paul McMullan at the Leveson inquiry
~ presumably therefore you should have nothing to hide unless you are a Paedo or a terrorist?
100 year gagging order
Not surprisingly the nothing to hide argument does not apply to Tony Blair and his colleagues, when he was forced to issue a D-notice to halt all the media publicising names of famous paedophiles that had been uncovered by Operation Ore.
NSA & GCHQ current abilities
Here is a list in simple terms of what NSA & GCHQ can do that we know of currently.
Here are the primary sources for that list from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
I have been watching the recent GCHQ & NSA revelation with great amusement, what we are seeing for the first time is the real shadow government that rules much of the world. What has become clear is that our governments in the West certainly are just a punch and judy show controlled and engineered by a cartel of Banksters, Military, Intelligence and the top elite scum-bags.
I found this on youtube it seeded this post…Cory Doctorow, editor of boingboing.net on the criminal GCHQ spying and theft of people’s private data for the state to know everything, and attempt blackmail of the population. UK is loooong down the road of becoming a police state.
Recorded from RT HD, Going Underground, 20 January 2014.
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