The reports of mass online and phone surveillance in the USA should not shock us. When you have unscrupulous people with Orwellian mindsets, this is what you get. Over the years, the US government and mainstream media have been successful in feeding misleading versions of world events to a gullible public. Defending the dangerous program, Barack Obama tried to reassure the public: "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls."
They say the program is not directed at Americans and people living in the USA (only a defunct computer mouse will believe it). Even if that is true, who gave these people the permission to target citizens of other countries?
This article talks about the scary nature of the project.
It's arrogant for the US to act like a world government.
The USA is increasingly behaving like Neolandia, an imaginary nation in my novel The Merchant King.
Here I quote a few lines from the novel to better illustrate my point: "Bally's work at Neolandia's Science Agency included developing fast Internet service and creating a database on people who used any form of satellite-supported communication throughout the world. Neolandia wanted all sorts of details on people – credit card numbers, shopping habits, travel data, sex relationships, bank transactions, medical records. Bally's great scientific brain helped them."
But what Neolandia was trying to do looks benign compared to what the USA is doing.
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