http://www.voanews.com/content/us-ending-bulk-telephone-data-program/3078721.html
>bulk collection on Americans ends midnight tonight
Last chance to get your own dossier, or is it...
>>1283
> The NSA will end the program by 4:59 a.m. GMT Sunday (11:59 p.m. EST Saturday) and expects to have the new, scaled-back system in place by then.
one program ends another begins
>>1283
>voa
hello there, CIA
>>1305
>hello there, CIA
Why the hate? They only do what RT or the BBC does, but with slightly less tax dollar support.
imagine the clusterfuck of useless info they had compiled.
What a huge waste of money considering there's no way of stopping some psycho with a gun and a dream.
>>1363
If anything it will likely become important to historians years down the road.
>tfw you will never escape the botnet
Why do they bother with this? Nobody believes they're actually ending anything.
>>1396
>historians
I think you mean youporn advertisers.
>>1363
Guess police, armed citizens, and security devices are completely useless at preventing crime too since most of them never encounter a serious violent incident
Now *that's* a spicy meatball
>>1283
This means nothing.
An intelligence agency is an intelligence agency because of data mining. Without data mining, you just have a bunch of overpaid employees.
Nothing's going to stop.
>>1313
Not the guy you were responding to but he's right, VOA has been used for government propaganda purposes in the past. Not saying it's a bad source, but perhaps not the most credible when it comes to this particular subject.
>>1800
I agree with this. They are still going to be monitoring and collecting virtually everything (including all internet traffic) as the data leaves north america in facilities like room641a. The phone metadata program was like 0.5% of all the total surveillance they do on the general public.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
>>1909
It really depresses me, I don't know what to do.
I hate the surveillance state, I want to make enough money to leave in wilderness for rest of my life.
>>1928
It depresses me too to the point that I have resisted getting a smart phone even though I know I have no reason to be explicitly monitored except by the usual adsense e-marketing networks.
But in an era when 91% of the public has a cellphone of some kind (some kids today get them when they start kindergarten) I'm starting to get looks like I'm the UniBomber when I tell people that.
>>1938
You too, eh? I'm sure it doesn't help that an absence of social media involvement is somewhat vilified by modern mass media. I remember in the wake of the Aurora shootings there an article or two about how the shooter was an anti-social weirdo who didn't have a facebook, and that not having a facebook could be a sign of psychopathy.