Wednesday, July 17, 2013

House Judiciary Committee Makes Show of Stopping the Snooping Database

Well at least they are paying lip-service to protecting our privacy.

In a heated confrontation over domestic spying, members of Congress said Wednesday they never intended to allow the National Security Agency to build a database of every phone call in America. And they threatened to curtail the government's surveillance authority.

Top Obama administration officials countered that the once-secret program was legal and necessary to keep America safe. And they left open the possibility that they could build similar databases of people's credit card transactions, hotel records and Internet searches.

So they are trying to build other databases for credit card transactions, hotel records, and Internet searches as well? I guess a GPS location database lifted from your phone will be next. At least the Congress is looking at this stuff instead of being distracted and pretending like this isn't going on.

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