The heading of this post is something of a simplification, for it is not merely the NSA that is a doppelgänger to your every electronic communication, nor is it limited to the contracted companies that have sprouted around the "Fort" in Maryland, but a cornucopia of other government agencies and private companies sift through your communications of all types; these poly-gängers gather your voice sailing, your text flowing, your legs and wheels moving and even your light-switch turning through the infosphere. From ad agencies running psychological profiles on Facebook users...
EFF: Facebook's Broken Promises: Facebook Apps Leaking Private Data to Advertisers and Trackers
...not to mention, your so-called "friends" doing the same...
FOXNews: Federal Agents Urged to 'Friend' People on Social Networks, Memo Reveals
...to police running warrantless checks on your cell-phone GPS data...
Physorg: US Attorney OK'd GPS to track cell phones
...or through surreptitious GPS tagging of your vehicle...
Time: The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves
...to the Smart Grid accessibility of your "highly detailed or 'granular' energy-consumption data"...
DOE (via Cryptome): DATA ACCESS AND PRIVACY ISSUES RELATED TO SMART GRID TECHNOLOGIES
...your letters are translucent and your movements are broadcast as your houses turn to glass.
We've come a long way from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson's comment in 1929 upon his discovery of the "Black Chamber" - the post-WWI predecessor of the NSA...
"Gentlemen do not read other people's mail"
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