According to recent Snowden leaks, our person pictures and videos as well as school and medical records are being collected in the NSA's spying program. But such non-targeted data, according to the NSA, is simply incidental. So now our most intimate details are incidental?
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The Latest Snowden Leaks Show That NSA Surveillance Gets Extremely Personal
We have known since Edward Snowden's first leaks came to light more than a year ago that NSA surveillance practices rely upon dragnet spying — the sort of programs that sweep in communications data of many thousands of ordinary phone and Internet users who have never been suspected of being terrorists. This is the backbone of the NSA story as it has played out so far: Surveillance is totalized, not targeted.
The newest revelations, published in a Washington Post investigation Sunday, flesh out what dragnet surveillance really means. And it's personal.
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