NSA Secretly Collecting Phone Records Of All U.S. Verizon Calls

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The government doesnt have the time or resources to have a person moniter each of the 300,000,000 people

Add a few more zeros and ask yourself how does China manages to do it.

To qualify: I dont agree that a survelance state or anything should be allowed to continue, I'm just trying to understand how people can be fine with such happening.

I perfectly understand, that's what I try to do 90% of the time when I converse with people about these kind of things. But one thing I have picked up on in my 21 years on this planet is that some times the one liners that people come up with to justify what they think can run circles around you simply because they no connection resembling anything logical but somehow is a verbal manifestation of pure apathy.

We are nowhere near having computers sophisticated enough to effectively replace an attentive security guard at a camera. Unless you've attracted attention or are committing a crime so obvious even a computer can tell, a computerised security camera's footage will never be seen by anyone in the government.

Heat flux, heart rate, other metabolic symptoms can all be built into a holistic program meant to send red flags.

Sci fi? Last I heard, the new Kinect coming out has the ability to tell you your heart rate while you wave your arms in your living room like an idiot.