{"id":28858,"date":"2017-12-14T20:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T01:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28858"},"modified":"2017-12-14T20:12:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T01:12:06","slug":"surveillance-that-never-sleeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28858","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance That Never Sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surveillance That Never Sleeps<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo by Mike Mozart | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cHe sees you when you\u2019re sleeping
\nHe knows when you\u2019re awake
\nHe knows when you\u2019ve been bad or good
\nSo be good for goodness sake!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014\u201cSanta Claus Is Coming to Town\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just in time for Christmas, the Deep State wants to give America the gift that keeps on giving:\u00a0never-ending mass surveillance<\/a>.\u00a0I\u2019m not referring to the kind of surveillance carried out by that all-knowing and all-seeing Jolly Old St. Nick and his informant the Elf on the Shelf (although, to be fair, they have\u00a0helped to acclimate us to a world in which we\u2019re always being watched and judged by higher authorities<\/a>).\u00a0No, this particular bit of Yuletide gift-giving comes courtesy of the Deep State (a.k.a. the Surveillance State, Police State, Shadow Government and\u00a0black-ops spy agencies<\/a>).<\/p>\n

If this power-hungry cabal gets its way, the government\u2019s power to spy on its citizens will soon be all-encompassing and permanent.<\/p>\n

As it now stands,\u00a0Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act<\/a>\u2014the legal basis for two of the National Security Agency\u2019s largest mass surveillance programs, \u201cPRISM\u201d and \u201cUpstream\u201d\u2014is\u00a0set to expire at the end of 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPRISM\u201d lets the NSA access emails, video chats, instant messages, and other content sent via Facebook, Google, Apple and others. \u201cUpstream\u201d lets the NSA worm its way into the internet backbone\u2014the cables and switches owned by private corporations like AT&T that make the internet into a global network\u2014and scan traffic for the communications of tens of thousands of individuals labeled \u201ctargets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just as the\u00a0USA Patriot Act was perverted from its original intent to fight terrorism abroad<\/a>\u00a0and was used instead to covertly crack down on the American people (allowing government agencies to secretly track Americans\u2019 financial activities, monitor their communications, and carry out wide-ranging surveillance on them),\u00a0Section 702 has been used as an end-run around the Constitution<\/a>\u00a0to allow the government to collect the actual content of Americans\u2019 emails, phone calls, text messages and other electronic communication without a warrant.<\/p>\n

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Surveillance That Never Sleeps Photo by Mike Mozart | CC BY 2.0 \u201cHe sees you when you\u2019re sleeping He knows when you\u2019re awake He knows when you\u2019ve been bad or good So be good for goodness sake!\u201d \u2014\u201cSanta Claus Is Coming to Town\u201d Just in time for Christmas, the Deep State wants to give America […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5493,13197,4622],"class_list":["post-28858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-counterpunch","tag-john-w-whitehead","tag-surveillance-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28859,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858\/revisions\/28859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}