A 29-year-old technology-infrastructure analyst named Edward Snowden provided the Guardian newspaper a secret court order compelling Verizon Business Services to release to the National Security Agency metadata from all customer phone calls on an “ongoing daily basis,” and revealed that the NSA has since 2007 been authorized to collect chat transcripts, emails, and media from servers owned by Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. “They can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you’ve ever made,” said Snowden, who is believed to have fled to Hong Kong. “To derive suspicion from an innocent life.” Jim Sensenbrenner (R., Wis.), who authored the Patriot Act, contended that the provision of the law granting the government access to business records was intended to monitor only individuals already under investigation. “Come on! Now you can’t use telecommunications unless you go back to the bad old days when I was a kid and use two tin cans with a string between the two of them,” he said. “You can’t have 100 percent security, and then have 100 percent privacy,” said President Barack Obama.
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A 29-year-old technology-infrastructure analyst named Edward Snowden provided the Guardian newspaper a secret court order compelling Verizon Business Services to release to the National Security Agency metadata from all customer phone calls on an “ongoing daily basis,” and revealed that the NSA has since 2007 been authorized to collect chat transcripts, emails, and media from servers owned by Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. “They can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you’ve ever made,” said Snowden, who is believed to have fled to Hong Kong. “To derive suspicion from an innocent life.” Jim Sensenbrenner (R., Wis.), who authored the Patriot Act, contended that the provision of the law granting the government access to business records was intended to monitor only individuals already under investigation. “Come on! Now you can’t use telecommunications unless you go back to the bad old days when I was a kid and use two tin cans with a string between the two of them,” he said. “You can’t have 100 percent security, and then have 100 percent privacy,” said President Barack Obama.