The Last Word on Privacy

TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=6660

On December 28, 2012, in the midst of the holiday news break and under cover of the "fiscal cliff" hype, the US Senate quietly voted to approve a renewal of amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Although hardly discussed at the time and almost never brought up since, the 2008 FISA Amendments Act represented a fundamental change to the US government's official, on-the-record approach to the collection of personal data on its own citizens and others around the world. Find out more about the FISA Amendments Act, Facebook, and the end of privacy in this installment of The Last Word from corbettreport.com