Is Big Brother wiretapping the American populace as a whole?

2017-03-15T04:29:24-04:00

Response by SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth made Mar 15 at 2017 5:57 AM

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If he is, it's both underhanded and sneaky. They must be paroniod.

Response by Cpl Justin Goolsby made Mar 15 at 2017 9:26 AM

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Eh... why not. The question of course becomes how much do you care? I'm not defending it or saying it is right. What I am saying though is think of the amount of information we freely give up on the Internet on an almost daily basis.

On social media, people "check-in" to places which tags their geographic location. We post our schedules, vacation plans, plenty of personally identifiable information every time we wish someone a Happy Birthday.

Hell, the majority of the country has a cell phone in their pocket, but how many of them use it to make calls. Typically it's a quick text or facebook message.

Even if they weren't spying on the public as a whole, we reveal enough about ourselves with our internet personas that they'd have a good gauge on our activities anyways.

Response by MSgt James Mullis made Mar 15 at 2017 9:58 AM

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Yes!

Response by SPC Kirby Rider made Mar 15 at 2017 10:56 AM

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Time to bust out my tin foil hat. The government has been watching us for a long time. License plate readers at most intersections in the USA, Public Space Cameras, Using a credit card or customer loyalty card, typing information into a search bar. All of this is tracked at some point, by someone. If you're not doing anything illegal, there is no reason for concern. If you are concerned, then you should check yourself and what you're doing.

Response by CPT Jack Durish made Mar 15 at 2017 11:48 AM

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My home and my office phones were monitored 24/7 when I was the Operations Officer for a Strategic Communications Center. Not only they do a thorough background check on me to obtain a Top Secret/Crypto/SIOP-ESI clearance, they ran one on my new bride. (I wish they had told me about her. It might have saved me a lot of trouble later on.) Awareness of the monitoring bothered me for all of about 30 seconds until it occurred to me that I was going to bore the hell out of whomever was tasked with listening to the minutia of my life. To be fair, it did bear fruit. During one annual security briefing, I heard a tape played of a series of conversations I had in which I repeatedly and desperately attempted to stop a colonel from reading a TS message over the phone (I even hung up on him twice)

Response by SFC George Smith made Mar 15 at 2017 11:52 AM

2017-03-15T11:52:30-04:00

It's called the NSA and they Have Been partially since The FISA went into-effect and full force with BHO and HRC ...

Response by PO1 Brian Austin made Mar 15 at 2017 12:35 PM

2017-03-15T12:35:30-04:00

Yes. Always expect that you're being monitored.
Do anything online and you leave an electronic signature that can be followed.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 15 at 2017 12:45 PM

2017-03-15T12:45:28-04:00

Yes, and it has been going on for a very long time. At least the capability has been there for a long time.
The only limitation is the number of analysts available to find anything interesting.

Response by Sgt Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 15 at 2017 12:58 PM

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During my civilian career, there was no expectation of privacy as phone calls, emails, internet use were spot monitored, briefcases searched, etc. Even after being told they were being monitored, there were a bunch of folks fired, a lot of them for getting into pornographic websites. I was not doing anything illegal, and did not care except for the random drug tests, which were a pain.

Response by MCPO Roger Collins made Mar 15 at 2017 1:57 PM

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No, that would be illegal. Sarc

Response by MGySgt James Forward made Mar 15 at 2017 2:23 PM

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I seriously doubt it. They got better things to do. That and I do not subscribe to any conspiracy theory CRAP. Semper FI.

Response by SPC David S. made Mar 15 at 2017 3:17 PM

2017-03-15T15:17:10-04:00

Yes - however today it is being outsourced in a variety of ways. One such way is In Q-Tel.
Here is just one example of some of the stuff coming out of In Q Tel. We are beyond the privacy issues related to communications we are talking about "molecular tags" as small as a single molecule in a million from up to 50 meters away in real time.

http://gizmodo.com/5923980/the-secret-government-laser-that-instantly-knows-everything-about-you

Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You From 164 Feet Away

Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body—agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you.

Response by SGT Edward Wilcox made Mar 15 at 2017 6:11 PM

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Can everyone say ECEHELON? "Big Brother" has been listening since at the '60s. The logical evolution of this gave us PRISM, the big NSA scandal that Snowden brought us. Both worked on finding keywords, then looking at the context around those keywords. Not particularly worried about it, though.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 15 at 2017 8:09 PM

2017-03-15T20:09:59-04:00

could be, there is technology, that can capture your cell signal, its supposed to be illegal to use against us citizens, but its there (psyops), used it in Iraq and probably Afghanistan, mostly for propaganda against our enemies, but with todays politics its a toss up

Response by Cpl Mark A. Morris made Mar 15 at 2017 9:13 PM

2017-03-15T21:13:58-04:00

Is it wire taping? Or, suckling up all emails, phone calls... Then, later going back through them if you get pegged.
M. Morris RVT

Response by COL Charles Williams made Mar 16 at 2017 12:14 AM

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Yes

Response by PO2 Robert M. made Mar 16 at 2017 8:55 PM

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This is attached to EVERY e-mail I send:

PLEASE NOTE: Privacy Warning ~ ~ ~

E-MAIL MESSAGES ARE NOT SECURE !!!!!

ANY information sent via the Internet can be intercepted, stored and disseminated without your knowledge/permission by any individual or agencies.

You may, therefore, reconsider sending messages which contain sensitive or personal information to any Internet address.

Response by SSG Edward Tilton made Mar 16 at 2017 9:52 PM

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So they can bill you.

Response by SSG Edward Tilton made Mar 18 at 2017 2:27 PM

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The Phone Companies set up the system so they could bill you again and again. It didn't take a lot of modification, they collect everything. Now your appliances are bugged too. At some point one of them will attack the other. Just remember, that Samsung Refrigerator may have been built in North Korea

Response by Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth made Mar 21 at 2017 11:44 AM

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I believe they are. Whatever is monitored, they are probably looking for key phrases or words etc. However, I don't have a problem with that. I have nothing to hide from anyone. If they want to listen in on me and my wife then all I have to say is that they will be bored to death. The thing is, if they are listening, then legally they can't disclose anything they hear unless it is deemed criminal then it has to be presented to a judge to be able to be used for prosecution. Don't care at all what they listen to with me.

Response by PO2 Sybil "TT" I. made Mar 26 at 2017 1:42 AM

2017-03-26T01:42:39-04:00

sure. tells you something when even the head of Facebook keeps a Band-Aid covering the camera on his laptop...

Response by SCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 27 at 2017 1:02 AM

2017-03-27T01:02:44-04:00

Nope.