The filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans' personal data.
The film references the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which was introduced by Senator Ted (Swimmer) Kennedy and signed into law by Jimmy Carter - bless his little pointy head.
More on this heinous bit of law can be found here, here and here. I can see it being applied to persons of interest within our National borders but applying it to everyone is beyond the scope and needs to stop.
Panopticon? Here -- "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example".
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