Fixing the NSA

[Griff]

I think it's interesting that she lost her job and the guy didn't, but Idaho.

This is a weird time socially but a line needs to be drawn that prevents collection of what people really consider private. I don't think anyone wants their bank transactions, business plans, and product designs compromised. It is also chilling of free speech when private communications are known to be monitored. People won't express unpopular opinions which will lead to societal stagnation. Although, truth be told, I feel like we already have reached the point where some things considered anti-patriotic can't be said so maybe it is too late already.

[Griff]

Of course bank records are exactly what the NSA wants...

[Lamplighter]

...that everyone has embarrassing moments, and stop using it against one another. I'm suspecting the latter, myself.

... never happen, GI. By coincidence, this article is in today's NY Times

NY Times
NATASHA SINGER
11/9/13

They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets.

At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking
about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students.
Throughout the presentation, she apparently posted disparaging comments on Twitter
about her fellow attendees, repeatedly using a common expletive.<snip>

“We would have wondered about the judgment of someone who spends their time
on their mobile phone and makes such awful remarks,” Mr. Meiklejohn said.<snip>

As certain high school seniors work meticulously this month to finish their early applications to colleges,
some may not realize that comments they casually make online could negatively affect their prospects.
In fact, new research from Kaplan Test Prep, the service owned by the Washington Post Company,
suggests that online scrutiny of college hopefuls is growing.

Of 381 college admissions officers who answered a Kaplan telephone questionnaire this year,
31 percent said they had visited an applicant’s Facebook or other personal social media page
to learn more about them — a five-percentage-point increase from last year.

More crucially for those trying to get into college, 30 percent of the admissions officers said
they had discovered information online that had negatively affected an applicant’s prospects.