Will the spying ever stop?

A lot of our fellow citizens don't have a problem with our government snooping us, living in a world where they are quite convinced that nothing THEY ever do could have consequences. And ignorance is bliss, until it is not.

From Daily Kos
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Want to know what can go wrong when the government collects data on you?

Here's an instructive look at what can happen when the government compiles massive amounts of personal data from millions of citizens. In this case, it's the FBI's National Crime Information Center database, and it's being mined for much more than criminals.

The New York Police Department says one of its detectives was recently caught using the NCIC database to secretly obtain personal information about two other NYPD officers. Police officials have suggested that the man, who also hacked into several individuals' e-mail accounts, was trying to figure out "who his ex-girlfriend, also a police officer, was chatting with."

Another police officer, Gilbert Valle, was convicted in March for using the NCIC database to "help compile dossiers on women that listed their birthdates, addresses, heights and weights," apparently as part of a "bizarre plot to kidnap, cook and cannibalize women." Fortunately, the authorities stepped in before the women he had profiled were harmed.