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From CNN article "The Internet is a surveillance state"
Quote: "For the first time, Google has confirmed that each year it receives a number of FBI "national security letters," which request that it turn over user account information to the agency. The warrant-less requests are shrouded in secrecy, so the company was able to give publicity only limited number of times it receives and complies with such letters."
"...Although the FBI are capable of doing so, they only monitor people who enter enough keywords to trigger a red flag. And this is a well published fact (just google carnivore software). There simply isn't enough time or resources to monitor the entire US population. Their computers have highly sophisticated algorithms that sort through the endless chatter and if enough key words are triggered, the FBI will take a closer look. But personally, I don't think it is THAT big of a deal. If the government were REALLY that sinister, the whole nation would eventually rise up and rebel against it..."
"...Facebook and Google records only get pulled when they have already taken an interest in you and technically, it has to be through a court subpoena in order to get the rights to that information..."
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