TITLE: A Random Thought about the Metadata and Government Surveillance
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: July 08, 2013  1:05 PM
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In a recent mischievous mood, I decided it might be fun to see
the following.

The next whistleblower with access to all the metadata that
the US government is storing on its citizens assembles a broad
list of names: Republican and Democrat; legislative, executive,
and judicial branches; public official and private citizens.
The only qualification for getting on the list is that the
person has uttered any variation of the remarkably clueless
statement, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, then you have
nothing to hide."

The whistleblower thens mine the metadata and, for each person
on this list, publishes a brief that demonstrates just how much
someone with that data can conclude -- or insinuate -- about a
person.

If they haven't done anything wrong, then they don't have
anything to worry about.  Right?
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