Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated

Re:Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated by brown9-2 on Sunday June 16, 2013 @03:13PM (#5889506)

I think a large part of the picture is being lost in the title of this submission.

It's not that the NSA's entire mission has boiled down to monitoring 300 phone numbers worldwide.

What is being stated is that "[l]ast year, fewer than 300 phone numbers were checked against the database of millions of U.S. phone records gathered daily by the NSA". (http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2021199412_nsatechd...)

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Re:Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated by Brushfire on Sunday June 16, 2013 @03:35PM (#5889592)

I guess my point was that if they only use it 300 times, is it really worth having the program around given the combo of costs both in privacy and dollars?

Of course there is more at play here, but they should be selling how many terrorist attacks they avoided, now how many people they snooped.

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Re:Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated by vlasev on Sunday June 16, 2013 @04:48PM (#5889908)

Would you know WHICH 300 phones to check without the program?

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Re:Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated by mattnewton on Sunday June 16, 2013 @07:36PM (#5890541)

This. The privacy cost is relevant and not easily quantifiable.

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