<story><title>NSA targets the privacy-conscious</title><url>http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/NSA-targets-the-privacy-conscious,nsa230.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>Of course this happens, and it&amp;#x27;s an obvious technique. I&amp;#x27;m sure that &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; having a facebook account adds to your score, using AdBlock adds to your score, mentioning the NSA online adds to your score, refusing cookies adds to your score, using Linux adds to your score, etc.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s how a police state works. (XKeyScore += 5)&lt;p&gt;My mother was involved in civil rights, so she has a file. It&amp;#x27;s fine that I have a file too. Hopefully I&amp;#x27;ll be gone before they start going door to door.&lt;p&gt;edit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extremist-forum-and-its-readers-get-flagged-extra-surveillance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linuxjournal.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;nsa-linux-journal-extrem...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>NSA targets the privacy-conscious</title><url>http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/NSA-targets-the-privacy-conscious,nsa230.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>caster_cp</author><text>The only way out of this, as I see it, is making privacy the default. But this require some cooperation and motivation from the big guys at silicon valley.&lt;p&gt;Imagine if Chrome, Firefox, Safari, all of them had, just like the incognito mode, the private mode. Of course, as anonymity also depends on the behavior of the user online, other actions are needed to really ensure security and privacy. But making it the default will educate more people about the importance of privacy and, more importantly, make the point that privacy isn&amp;#x27;t only for criminals, terrorists and wrong-doers, but that &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot;, law abiding citizens also should have the right to be private. And that is paramount for a democracy to work.</text></comment>