National Security Agency Prepares to Spy on MySpace

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8:00 am on June 12, 2006 | Category: Web Services, Regulation

According to a recent article on NewScientist.com, America’s National Security Agency isn’t willing to stop at storing the call records of ordinary citizens, but will soon begin monitoring internet activities on social networking sites like MySpace.

The NSA is reportedly funding research into the integration of information from online communities with banking, retail, and property records to create “personal profiles” of suspected terrorists. Of course, as a “classified” program, such information gathering techniques could be used by the government to find out just about anything about anyone they want to.

This type of sick control complex goes to show just how determined the U.S. government is to pry into the everyday lives of citizens.

We all know not to let kids post personal information on the internet for fear of attracting the attention of “perverts.” Now adults need to start heeding the same advice – for a very similar reason.