Peter van Buren on NSA Scandal

http://wemeantwell.com/blog/

I’m not doing anything wrong, so why should I care? If you’re doing nothing wrong, then you’ve got nothing to hide! See above. The definition of “wrong” can change very quickly. I trust Obama on this. All of your personal data is in the hands of the same people that run the TSA, the IRS and likely the DMV. Do you trust all of them all the time to never make mistakes or act on personal grudges or political biases? Do you believe none of them would ever sell your data for personal profit ever? In fact, the NSA is already sharing your data with, at minimum, British intelligence. That’s a foreign government that your American government is informing on you to, FYI. Also, the alleged leaker, Edward Snowden, worked for a private contracting company and had access to your data. I really trust Obama on this. OK, let’s stipulate that Obama will never do anything bad with the data. But once collected, your personal data exists forever, and is available to whomever in the future can access it, using whatever technologies come to exist. Trusting anyone with such power is foolish.