NSA data "What we collect"

[Matt D.]

"What Data We Collect
Every day, people leave a digital trail of electronic breadcrumbs as they go about their daily routine. They go to work using electronic fare cards; drive through intersections with traffic cameras; walk down the street past security cameras; surf the internet; pay for purchases with credit/debit cards; text or call their friends; and on and on.

There is no way to predict in advance which crucial piece of data will be the key to revealing a potential plot. The standard operating procedure for the Domestic Surveillance Directorate is to "collect all available information from all available sources all the time, every time, always".

For security reasons, it is unrealistic to expect a complete list of information we collect for our national citizen database. In the spirit of openness and transparency however, here is a partial list:

internet searches
websites visited
emails sent and received
social media activity (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
blogging activity including posts read, written, and commented on - View our patent
videos watched and/or uploaded online
photos viewed and/or uploaded online
music downloads
mobile phone GPS-location data
mobile phone apps downloaded
phone call records - View our patent
text messages sent and received
online purchases and auction transactions
bookstore receipts
credit card/ debit card transactions
bank statements
cable television shows watched and recorded
commuter toll records
parking receipts
electronic bus and subway passes / Smartpasses
travel itineraries
border crossings
surveillance cameras
medical information including diagnoses and treatments
prescription drug purchases
guns and ammunition sales
educational records
arrest records
driver license information"

This is the information taken from the NSA website. Now despite what their director will say at least on their website they are honest.
Isn't this insane? I would like to know what you guys think about this. I find this the most horrifying thing to see in quite a while. I suspected they did it, but when they just have it out in the open they are spying on us with no warrant that is should be angering to the people. And the worst is they say that it is not a complete list, which I find amazing, if that is not enough, they check even more into us.
If someone would like to see the page, then here is the link to the website. nsa.gov1.info/data/index.html

[Justin]

This is crazy. I can't believe that people aren't outraged at this!

I had no clue that they could do half of this without a search warrant.

[Matt D.]

I really don't think they can (Legally that is,) without a warrant.
But they do it anyway. And that is the problem, they just seem to not care if you have any problem with there snooping. I know in many places (Used to be here included) They would have not had a very good day (If you know what I mean, maybe a reading of the limits there authority, fines, etc.)