New Video Highlights How The Government Tracks You
from the nsa-video dept
The folks at Fight for the Future and Demand Progress released a great five minute video about how the NSA spies on the public, narrated by actress Evangeline Lilly (the video also relies heavily on fair use to make its point). Check it out:Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Let me know who you called today, all of the phone calls, how long those calls were, what you bought today, where you spent your time online, not to mention let me just take a quick look through your email...
We'll see if you truly have nothing to hide.
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But could a business competitor exploit your private knowledge? Or a political adversary? What if an organization wanted to single out members to a certain group- do you divulge your sexual orientation, religious or political views?
Through the NSA a means exists for private (non-government) interests to exploit private personal data. By infiltrating the NSA- which Snowden proves is not that hard- or by exploiting the security flaws they introduce.
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See also, Stalinism, Maoism, Nazism, Husseinism.
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1. The government is already doing a poor job in protecting that information. Depending on the agency that is handling that info. Giving it to a stranger at times seems safer than having them handling it.
2. The government and certain agency's want to expand what and for how long this data is stored. They have no issues in expanding who has access to this data.
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Google: "Why nothing to hide is a fallacy" and look at any one of the numerous reports.
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http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/
This line will be of a great help to you
"Purposes such as scholarship, research, or education may also qualify as transformative uses because the work is the subject of review or commentary."
Since you say you're doing this for school, you can pretty much use any work, as long as you make sure you comment on any work used...which is basically what you're aiming to do anyway.
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How ironic
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