Big Brother is Definitely Watching

The more connected and interconnected we are with our tech, our mobile devices, computers, Web usage and email, the more the government apparently wants to know about what we’re doing and saying with all this connectivity, who we’re talking to, when we’re talking and what we’re talking about..  It sounds like a scary conspiracy theory, but unfortunately more and more evidence is piling up detailing the far reaching eye of the government.

We’ve recently seen stories on CISPA and big data, and the government watching our Web browsing, as well as the state of internet surveillance overall.  But no recent “Big Brother” stories are as big as the stories that truly belong in the movies. Companies like Verizon have been forced to hand over phone records to the U.S. government under a top secret court order. We’ve also learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI have been pulling data on Americans from companies like Google and Facebook.

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