The NSA: “thx 4 teh add!! LOL!!!”

Just when you thought spying on Americans couldn’t get any more bizarre, the NSA appears to be working on a plan to combine mountains of MySpace data with it’s already well established phone records in an effort to connect people at “deeper levels”.
Who do you think is in Bin Laden’s top 8?

By adding online social networking data to its phone analyses, the NSA could connect people at deeper levels, through shared activities, such as taking flying lessons. Typically, online social networking sites ask members to enter details of their immediate and extended circles of friends, whose blogs they might follow. People often list other facets of their personality including political, sexual, entertainment, media and sporting preferences too. Some go much further, and a few have lost their jobs by publicly describing drinking and drug-taking exploits. Young people have even been barred from the orthodox religious colleges that they are enrolled in for revealing online that they are gay.

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