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The main point of my ire over NSA spying on U.S. Citizens in America is...IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Obviously (despite Obama's lies denying it), since we know from recent Snowden Leaks that the DEA and NSA have collaborated with almost all of these Tech companies. We also know from this week’s FISA Court info release that they claim not a single Telephone company has contested the legality of such NSA demands before opening the info vaults. We know from Brazil President snub of Obama that NSA targets foreign companies (like Petrobas) and undertakes illegal spying to achieve unfair commercial benefit for USA over foreign competitors. With the help of the equipment manufacturers, NSA has already hacked all of the iPhones (and other mobile phones on the market), facsimile machines, etc. to illegally listen in on conversations of foreign politicians, as well as conversations by American citizens and foreigners. We can also assume that the NSA also worked closely with Apple (and perhaps Samsung-USA) in advance of launch their handsets such as iPhone-5S. This is to ensure that the millions of customers worldwide who embed their fingerprints into their iPhones are helping the NSA and Interpol to build jumbo, international Fingerprint Libraries matched to their Names, Addresses, and Phone Numbers. Apple's own notes about its Touch ID system on its site say that Touch ID will incrementally add new sections of your fingerprint to your enrolled fingerprint data to improve matching accuracy over time. Germany’s Chaos Club has already hacked the iPhone Fingerprint Sensors (www.theguardian.com%2ftechnology%2f2013%2fsep%2f22%2fapple-iphone-fingerprint-scanner-hacked" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/22/apple-iphone-fingerprint-scanner-hacked?CMP=ema_565&et_cid=50028&et_rid=4033019&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2ftechnology%2f2013%2fsep%2f22%2fapple-iphone-fingerprint-scanner-hacked ). We know from Snowden revelations that these Tech & TeleComm companies either sell their customer info to the NSA directly (from their clouds), or allow the NSA to build backdoors into their hardware/software and computer programs. If all OEM Manufacturers of Mobile Handsets go down this same technology path, then we can assume that all Telephone companies will be extorted (or bribed) by the U.S. Government to sell their Fingerprint meta-data registries to the DEA/NSA. Since almost everyone on Earth now uses mobile phones, instead of this NSA day-by-day covert program-creep with Fingerprinting everyone via their phones, why not just do like Hitler tried and stamp bar-codes on our arms so we can jump straight to the inevitable surrender of all our Constitutional Right to Privacy and Constitutional Right to protection against Self-Incrimination?

A fingerprint scanner system has two basic jobs -- it needs to get an image of your finger, and it needs to determine whether the pattern of ridges and valleys in this image matches the pattern of ridges and valleys in pre-scanned images. if somebody steals your fingerprints, you're pretty much out of luck for the rest of your life. You wouldn't be able to use your prints as a form of identification until you were absolutely sure all copies had been destroyed. There's no way to get new prints.

The NSA routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about law-abiding US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/11/nsa-israel-intelligence-memorandum-understanding-document ).

Some people make ignorant or belittling comments about ‘tinfoil hats’ just to feel good about themselves or win this argument. However, others understand their Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Government already has my Fingerprints, and my DNA (I am a Retired Serviceman who dev**ed 21-years to defending your rights and our way of life). I am not worried personally. However, if you allow the Government to start down this slippery slope of taking away our every Constitutional Right and Bill of Rights protections where does it end (e.g. NSA is now saying that Americans have no right to privacy (right to be let alone), we and have no right to protection against self-incrimination (5th Amendment), and have no right to protection from unreasonable search & seizure (4th Amendment); and no right to due process (parts of the Patriot Act takes away our 14th Amendment); etc.)? Regardless of whether or not you are comfortable with so easily giving up your rights, do I have a right in America to keep mine protected? If you give them the right to indiscriminately collect Fingerprints without due legal process and public debate (and t***sfer that info to foreign countries who do not follow our USA laws), why dont you give them your DNA also. Then they can have a Fingerprint Database, and then a DNA Database. Why not give them access to your medical history and maladies, so they can know if you are on the verge of despair. Then, since you have nothing else to hide, might as well let NSA put listening devices into your bedrooms so they can listen in on your comments to wife in the heat of passion, and then let them force everyone to wear Bracelets that record your every conversation (they are inventing bracelet phones & bracelet computers); etc.

Last month NSA admitted that they were collecting your phone records; 3-weeks ago they admitted they were collecting your Internet browsing history; 2-weeks ago they admitted they were reading your mail and had access to your computer files; 1-week ago they admitted they were tapping your telephones; this week it was found that they are attempting to force University Professors to stop commenting about NSA, and found to be distributing American’s raw and unprotected personal info to Israel (as well as the other 5-Eyes) without a legal framework to protect it (claiming that they could sift the Government info out, but not the Private Citizen info out before giving it Israel); this week we learned that NSA and Britain’s GCHQ hacked into Belgium’s largest telecom BelgaCom; NSA hacked and stole billions of pieces of data from India’s telephone & Internet in less than 30-days; NSA targeted and hacked Brazil’s Petrobas (for commercial benefit to USA); NSA (and GCHQ) impersonated as Google Network and spy on Web-Searchers (MITM attack) using f**ed SSL cryptographic security certificates; etc.

NSA trusts Israel (who is 3rd worst cyber-hacker into American Government) not to abuse Senate & Congressional info, like they will with private citizen info. Where does it end? What will come next week? If you are comfortable living in a C*******t country with no rights and the Government dictating everything...then go there. However, I want to live in America, where our founding fathers gave us Rights...and told us that you can throw yours away if you want, while still allowing me to keep mine. I gave 50-percent of my life to the Government so we could have Rights. I want to say to all the @-snotty commentators: You are such technology brainiacs and smarter than me, but you lack any common sense at all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/magazine/battle-of-the-clipper-chip.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/11/nsa-israel-intelligence-memorandum-understanding-document