Re: RE: Who didn't know what the NSA was doing?
Okay - you may have a point in there...at least, a partial point. Here's why I say that:
"Nothing these companies hold is likely to hurt you"
The big Credit Reporting Trio has info that CAN hurt you, agreed? No mortgage, no car loan, etc. How'd they gather that, do you suppose?
"No-one expects to be spied by the State on just because they exist - no cause, no reason, no justification. Basically, to equate the two is specious in the extreme."
Specious? How? Can you please provide a documented case that whatever data NSA has was used improperly? Sure, that they gathered it at all is scary...but how was it USED?