no its not worthless. they did it on purpose - to control population. now, try to become politcian in 20 years when somebody will know that for example - you love tranny porn and one time you dated 19 years girl and paid her 200 $ when you were 42....
thousands of examples like that. try to stick out from social status quo in future and they will already know who you are, what are your weak points and so on.
read this:
KARMA POLICE: GCHQ spooks spied on every web user ever ? The Register
GCHQ tried to track Web visits of ?every visible user on Internet? | Ars Technica
you may also wonder why they spied on journalists, NGOs, lawyers, persons interested in encryption, sysadmins, guys visiting linux forums, guys using VPN, TOR etc. etc.
every independent thinking person that wants her privacy is a danger for them and their ideology which - "sniff it all, collect it all and exploit it all".
so basically - it has nothing with stopping terrorism.
every intelligence service are usually like cops in the hood - they know already who the bad guys are and what they plan. guys who are interested in bad doing (criminals and so on) are maybe 0,1-1 % % of population and guys interested in violent terrorism - maybe 0,0001 % of populations. you dont need mass surveillance for that.
Belgians and French intelligence services were already suspecting and knowing the guys who did latest bombings - yet they did not enough to stop them.
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Originally Posted by kane
I read the other day that the NSA has gathered so much data on US citizens that they are overwhelmed by it and now there is so much they can't analyze it all and it is basically worthless to them when it comes to stopping bad guys.
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