Look Whose Spying Now

Thanks to the news agency Reuters, we have now have a good idea what country leads the world in requesting data from Internet, cell phone and other techie companies. At 30,128 requests in 2012, the U.S. made more twice the requests by the United Kingdom, number two country on the list of ten.

“Even if they can listen in, that doesn’t mean they are,” says a friend.  “Most of our conversations are really not that interesting to anyone but us and sometimes not even then.”

Fair enough, but what makes all this National Security Agency eavesdropping so frightening to me is while you might not have anything to hide, talking with someone who does could get you caught up in the NSA’s dragnet. And like it or not, you are subject to being treated as a criminal too, though you’ve done nothing wrong.

It appears, “We the People,” are far more transparent and trusting that our Federal Government.