Shia Labeouf: One-In-Five Phone Calls Are Recorded??

DaltheJigsaw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3ux1hpLvqMw

A bit uncomfortable.

sova

It's more like all phone calls are recorded. He probably just said 1 in 5 to make it seem Sort-of reasonable. The NSA actually records all digital communications in these big server farms, I think there's one in nevada.. it uses more power than some US states. They record everything, but it's so much data that they can only go back and look at stuff that they have some probable cause to search. It's pretty ridiculous and a total annihilation of civil liberty. Total violation of the bill of rights

fivebells

@sova, it is possible you are correct, but there is no evidence to suggest it. The NSA is systematically collecting phone metadata, and there are reasons to believe that they record every conversation which includes an overseas party. Which is bad enough, of course.

searching_samsara

Civil liberty is already annihilated. There are no 'different' political parties. There is one ruling elite who every so often 'shuffle' the face of government so it looks like your getting something 'new'. The people in power, wish to remain in power. And power is all its about. To quote O'Brian from George Orwell's 1984: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

lobster

All actions, all thoughts, all being is karma. Right speech and phone recording is not an issue or did I miss something . . .

Dakini

fivebells said:

@sova, it is possible you are correct, but there is no evidence to suggest it. The NSA is systematically collecting phone metadata, and there are reasons to believe that they record every conversation which includes an overseas party. Which is bad enough, of course.

This. But I think they also record conversations (and check internet communications) when certain key words trigger a recording.

upekka

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Cinorjer

I work in the IT world of communication. The problem is the sheer amount of data in the billions and then trillions of bytes that must be examined. Even then it's just digital voice creating a never-ending waterfall of data constantly gushing through the digital networks. And that stream is all sound turned to digital format, voices that are in many languages, so you can't tell a program to list all phone calls where someone said the word "bomb" for instance. You're still left with millions of false alarms being created every minute.

The problem is when the government does have reason to look more closely at you or the group you belong to. They can now go in and identify your phone number and they know exactly who you have been talking to and what was said. What this means is that people now have to think twice about joining any protest or group that is in any way critical of the government or big money interests that run the government, because they have and will start monitoring you in the name of "fighting terrorism". The government openly admits to treating even the mostly harmless Occupy movement as a potential terrorist organization.

person

This collection of metadata that recently came to light doesn't in and of itself bother me all that much. But its like what the leaker Snowden said in his interview, there were abuses and if this technique becomes the norm then down the road new methods would be added that we would find objectional now but not then.