Electronic surveillance

Electronic Crimes Bill 2015: Big brother (and his brothers) are watching you

The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities that we’ve ever seen in human history. What they will argue is that they don’t use this for nefarious purposes ... That’s something like saying ‘I have a gun pointed at your head, but I’m not going to pull the trigger. Trust me’.

Edward Snowden says he didn’t trust them, and that’s why he did what he did: revealing literally terabytes of data about the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities and capabilities, both foreign and domestic.

For some, it was a frightening affirmation of something we’ve known all along, but hoped to God wasn’t true. e-mails, chats, social media activity, video, photo and music as well as online transactions and credit card activity and every other thing in between; the NSA has access to literally anything and everything that passes (in the form of internet traffic) in and out of the United States of America.