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When do we say "STOP" to the NSA?

According to a report from The Washington Post, the NSA is tracking the movement of cellphones all over the world.

This data collection generates about 5 billion records a day -- although some lame "journalist" at the AP has interpreted this (cite) as meaning that they are tracking "the locations of nearly 5 billion cellphones every day". Duh!

Regardless of the semantics involved, this is just another in a growing string of outrageous invasions of our privacy that the NSA seems to think it can engage in.

Well sooner or later, the world has to stand up and say "ENOUGH!", and surely that time is now.

The WP story quotes an anonymous source from with in the NSA as saying "we are getting vast volumes" of location data from around the world by tapping into the cables that connect mobile networks globally and that serve U.S. cellphones as well as foreign ones

Excuse me but the NSA has no right to go lurking around, tracking mobile phones outside the borders of its own nation. In fact, I doubt if they have a legal right to engage in large-scale tracking within the USA.

Many nations around the world voiced strong objections to the NSA's global spying activities although none seem to have gone beyond the stage of sharply worded rhetoric.

Of course I strongly doubt that our present "am I bending over far enough to please you?" pro-US government will even go so far as to critcise the USA for its invasive spying against NZers and visitors to NZ -- but then again, this is a government that has shown its willingness to thumb its nose at the very concept of democracy by selling down state assets in the face of overwhelming public opposition to that initiative. Even when the reality dawns on them that the returns from such a sell-down will not come close to those projected, they continue to sell, blinded by their ideology.

So how can we, the public, fight back against he NSA and its creepy actions?

Widespread encryption is one way, misinformation is another.

However, I fear that, as I've said so many times before, our biggest enemy is not the NSA, it's not our own abusive government, it's apathy.

Kiwis, being the sheeple they are, will simply accept whatever is dished out, either by our government or their US puppetmasters.

Now I fear more than ever, the outcome of the TPPA negotiations.

What chance do we have of retaining our sovereignty when our government seems keen to sell it, along with the family silver?

Personally, I welcome our NSA overlords and say to them:

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