re: #38 twisty

All this stinks to high heaven. I do think there should be checks on data collection, but I absolutely hate misinformation and scaremongering. Simple screens? Gasp! Nefarious! These screens should be tiny and complicated and accessible only to a very smart budgerigar trained in COBOL. Punching in an email to pull up all your phone calls (pre-recorded naturally!)? Maintaining a database indexed solely on email and IP? Sounds plausible and makes total sense, since you me & the NSA know that your email, IP, and phone number are permanent forever, completely unchangeable, tied together, and engraved on your birth certificate. This sounds like the nonsense people try to give you at the repair shop if they think you don’t know much about cars. Just enough to scare you.

Agreed - this explanation from Greenwald sounds like bullshit from someone who doesn’t really grasp what he’s describing, but wants to make it sound as scary as possible.