The Data Mining Doesn't Bother Me

Everyone knows about this already.  The NSA has been collecting phone records from Verizon, and info from Facebook Apple and others under supposedly legal terms to monitor possible terror threats in this country and abroad.  It is a pretty big deal.  There are obviously a lot of questions about the constitutionality of the program or if it is a violation of our rights.  

Here is Obama talking about it the other day:

Obviously he is going to make it sound not that bad.

And just to be fair here is Alex Jones:

We all knew he wouldn’t like it.

My question is, didn’t everyone assume that this was going on anyway?  Heck before I even had the internet I used to be afraid when my friends talked to me about how they had scored some pot over the phone.  Like I thought that the government might be listening to me back then on my land line.   As soon as I got an IPhone with the GPS in it I was positive that they were monitoring me, where I was, who I was talking to.  Maybe not me in particular but if my activities on my phone sent up a red flag in some huge supercomputer at the NSA that they would then start closely looking at what I was doing.  I was sure of that then and I was proven right.  Were there really people naïve enough to believe that that wasn’t happening? 

The thing is.  I don’t care.  It doesn’t bother me a bit.  I am boring.  I know what my activities are and I am not up to no good. They are taking in huge amounts of data and looking for patterns in it.  They are not doing a PowerPoint presentation of the dick pics that you sent to your wife last week.  (Not that I've done that.  Im just trying to come up with an embarrassing thing they could be looking at.  I bet my wife would find that disgusting.) If there is a special agent looking at me in particular, he has the most boring job in the world.   Ideally everyone should be living like that anyway right?  I want people who intend harm to others to be identified before they do it.  And if we can prevent something from happening in this country or in another country where people are harmed, let’s do it.