A lot of people— sometimes the most technically competent ones— were busily telling them that wholesale surveillance was infeasible... greatly underestimating the available funding and ingenuity.
The fact that this is happening to _everyone_...
Has this actually changed? Is there any evidence that a U.S. citizen's gmail account, or skype calls, or yahoo searches, or facebook information, has been obtained without a court ordered warrant?
I'm not a U.S. citizen and have always assumed that anything I put on these companies' servers can be read by the U.S. government at will. But if you're a citizen of the land of the free and the home of the brave, I haven't seen anything come out that actually showed your cloud data is being accessed without probable cause being shown, the way it always has been.
The fact that this is happening to _everyone_...
Has this actually changed? Is there any evidence that a U.S. citizen's gmail account, or skype calls, or yahoo searches, or facebook information, has been obtained without a court ordered warrant?
I'm not a U.S. citizen and have always assumed that anything I put on these companies' servers can be read by the U.S. government at will. But if you're a citizen of the land of the free and the home of the brave, I haven't seen anything come out that actually showed your cloud data is being accessed without probable cause being shown, the way it always has been.