Visiting Websites About Privacy Gets You Put in an NSA Database of “Extremists”
Merely expressing an interest in anonymity makes you a target
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
July 3, 2014
Searching for online articles about privacy is enough to get someone put in an NSA database of “extremists,” according to new revelations published today.
In an article for German news outlet Tagesschau (translation here), Lena Kampf, Jacob Appelbaum and John Goetz reveal how the NSA’s “deep packet inspection” rules, which it uses to determine who to target for deep surveillance, include looking for web users who search for articles about Tor and Tails, an anonymous browser and a privacy-friendly operating system.
Those whose Internet traffic patterns suggest merely an interest in Tor or Tails are immediately put on a list of “extremists,” as is anyone who actually uses the Tor network.
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