Bernie Sanders Is Very Worried About Your Data

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by Drew Millard

During last week's Democratic presidential debate, avowed pinko and every cool teen's favorite Larry David impersonator Bernie Sanders had some dire warnings about our online privacy.

"Virtually every telephone call in this country ends up in a file at the NSA. That is unacceptable to me," Sanders told debate moderator Anderson Cooper. "I think the government is involved in our emails, is involved in our websites."

Then he took it a step further. "But it's not just government surveillance," he said, as (I assume) a dark cloud made up of ones and zeroes gathered over his head slightly out of view of CNN's cameras. "Corporate America is doing it as well."

In an email to VICE this week, a Sanders campaign spokesperson expanded on the 2016 candidate's comments, saying, "In addition to government surveillance, the Senator is concerned about the lack of privacy consumers have, and how their information is often unwittingly collected, shared, and sold." The campaign also pointed to Sanders' vote against the controversial NSA reform bill earlier this year, and to an amendment the Senator attempted to attach to this year's National Defense Authorization Act. The amendment, which did not make it into the final version of the NDAA, would have created a two-year commission to investigate changes in data collection, and the possible impact on privacy rights and surveillance.

"I believe we need to take a look at how the public and private sectors are gathering data on the American people and how we are moving toward an Orwellian society in which your location and movements can be tracked at any time through your smartphones and computers," Sanders said in a June statement announcing his plans to introduce the amendment.

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1. The only quibble I have with Bernie's position is that there is a distinction made

between the corporations and USofA government.

The government carries out the $$$'s bidding (expecting big rewards in their later careers.)

The NSA and other gov't intelligence apparatuses regularly feed back information from foreign surveillance to the $$$s. After all, isn't that what all the other countries are doing to US?

All those nice little rules and regs about what the gov't can and can't do have totally flown out the window in the last 20-30 years. And of course they were mainly winked at ever since we started violating treaties back in the 1800's. I don't believe a word of what is written in the high-falutin language of our bills and documents.

Back to your workstations, proles. Your time will come.