Only God can save us.

Last week The Guardian in Britain reported that the National Security Agency, helped by the FBI, in the US had been collecting records of phone calls of US citizens for 7 years. Although not listening to conversations intelligence agencies collected numbers of origin, where they ended and duration of calls. Then it was reported that internet giants like Google, Yahoo and Facebook were handing over all IP addresses and their origins, under a program called Prism which is targeted at foreigners. The Guardian suggests that 6.3 billion reports were obtained from India. All this was revealed by 29 year old former CIA computer technician,  Edward Snowden. He was employed by a private company, Booz Allen Hamilton which was working for the NSA in Hawaii. Snowden was enraged by the wholesale clandestine surveillance of US citizens and flew to Hong Kong before blowing the whistle. " I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self interested. I don't want to live in a world where there is no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity," Snowden said. " The government has granted itself powers it is not entitled to'" he said. In response Barack Obama said that Prism targets only foreign nationals and that it was worth giving up a little privacy for more security. They all say that don't they? " I think that's a dangerous statement," said Bob Taylor, a computer scientist who played a major role in the 1960s in formulating what would become the internet. " The government should have told us it was doing this. And that suggests a more fundamental problem, that we're not in control of our government." New York Times, 10 June. In 1999, Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems said," You have zero privacy. Get over it." Now, however, he said," Should you be afraid if AT&T has your data? Google? They're private entities. AT&T can't hurt me. Jerry Brown ( Governor of California ) and Barack Obama can." Defenders of surveillance say that people reveal all their details on social networking channels anyway. No one objects to CCTV cameras which help in catching criminals. If a pedophile or an unknown terrorist is caught then the agencies can quickly find out his or her contacts and capture them. Trouble is in a police state like India where 163 of 543 MPs are accused of serious crimes such information is dangerous. The Congress went after Anna Hazare when all he wanted was an end to corruption, which should be the sacred duty of elected representatives of the people. It has started a Central Monitoring System and will start National Cyber Coordination Centre to spy on us. With laws on sedition and section 66a everyone will be in grave danger. May God protect us.