On-line Privacy is DEAD

List of social networks hacked by FBI/NSA
Gmail
Facebook
Hotmail
Yahoo
Apple
Skype
Youtube

Your private documents of those services were scanned and stored in FBI/NSA files. Notice that Twitter is not included.
The Irony: US should secure Armed Forces digital files (hacked by China) before it hacks its citizens’ files.

The NSA Prism Program
‘The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.

‘The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called Prism, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says.

‘The Guardian has verified the authenticity of the document, a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation – classified as top secret with no distribution to foreign allies – which was apparently used to train intelligence operatives on the capabilities of the program. The document claims “collection directly from the servers” of major US service providers…’
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Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’
‘…As the computer-security specialist Schneier aptly notes, the nothing-to-hide argument stems from a faulty “premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong.” Surveillance, for example, can inhibit such lawful activities as free speech, free association, and other First Amendment rights essential for democracy.

”The deeper problem with the nothing-to-hide argument is that it myopically views privacy as a form of secrecy. In contrast, understanding privacy as a plurality of related issues demonstrates that the disclosure of bad things is just one among many difficulties caused by government security measures…’
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