Stellar Wind: Government Recording Every Digital Move You Make

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William Binney worked at the N.S.A. [National Security Agency] for 32 years.

He is regarded as one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in the N.S.A.'s history.

...the domestic spy program – code-named Stellar Wind, or simply “The Program” as known to insiders – gathers data from individuals, storing it in massive databases and allowing customized profiles for each person to be queried à la search engine-style. He says Stellar Wind’s sole purpose is to monitor what everyone is doing.

Unwittingly, Binney says he built the back-end for a program that has since been redirected towards the American people, tracking and logging every citizen’s phone calls, texts, emails, Google searches, and even social network history.

“Domestically, they’re pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country and assembling that information, building communities that you have relationships with, and knowledge about you; what your activities are; what you’re doing. So the government is accumulating that kind of information about every individual person and it’s a very dangerous process.”

You can view a new mini documentary (8:28) about Stellar Wind by Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PIPHNlAxY4&feature=player_embedded