Spooky: How NSA’ Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life

What I want to know is:

1. How to get a copy of your own dossier

2. What's the most practical way to protect your internet traffic? TOR? Routing through a VPN tunnel outside of the US?

If this surveillance is even half as extensive as these articles portray, I just want to throw my hands up and not give a damn any more. It just seems like a lost cause.

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/foia/foia_handbook.shtml

Good luck...

I don't understand why everyone assumes any and all spying the NSA does is used against US citizens. None of these articles ever mention USSID 18. Why is that?

Also Executive Order 12333 Part 2.3

I have previously joked & ridiculed people for exagerrating concerns on FB & Google's privacy policies. But what NSA doing now is creepy to the core.

And they've been doing it for a while now

The New Yorker wrote a much better (and longer) piece about this last year.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_...

So because they wrote it, nobody else shouldn't? :)

They ought to improve upon it, or give updates at least.

They did. New whistleblowers giving new information, along with updated progress on legal action.

Did you actually read the article?