They Know All About You

Edward Snowden went about it all wrong.  He's known all along that data was had on everybody.  Everybody.  From the days of retrieving data through someone's trash to wire tapping to cyber threats, somebody is always watching and knows what you do. This has gone on forever.  Since he had known this for a very long time and it became part of his world, he obtained employment where he was able to do just that - gather personal data.  One day he announced to the world that he had proof that big brother had tabs on everybody; and to prove it, he shared plenty of that information with an old rival.  I doubt he is happier in his new home country, even though their president who took him in despises traitors.  Snowden can't be too smart since he didn't think far enough out to know what repercussions and consequences there would be to pay.  ID 10 T.

I have known since I was a mere child that people watched people and wanted information about them for odd reasons; and from the television and newspapers stories, even trash cans were gone through to gather personal data.  I knew about spies and espionage, and the stories were just amazing.  I felt sorry for the young children of a parent who was found to be an international spy for a nemesis country who had been trained and then planted in this country to live and blend in with the government personnel.  Poor children.

It is partially human nature that there are those who like to gather information just for the sake of gathering info. Store that information and you now have records, whether it's on cave walls, in a library, or in cyber space.  Gathering, storing, and analyzing information has always been done for many and various reasons since the beginning of time.  It just has.  How that information is used is then dealt with by the people who want it.