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Snowden directly answers this -- he claims NSA analysts can get away with it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblowe

• Spooky23 13y ago
  Many government and private sector systems share these types of problems. Think Facebook and the DMV. As controls mature around the process, trolling through the data becomes relatively easy to enforce. My understanding is that in most state DMVs, looking up the driving record of a public figure or similarly flagged individual by some clerk is immediately detected, and "curiosity" lookups on friends and family eventually get caught by audit.
  • alrs 13y ago
    There is no problem. This spying is being done for economic advantage, not to "protect us." This information is being passed on to American corporations. This is very old news. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/070200-02.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/070200-02.htm