On: How the secret police tracked my childhood

[parimm]

Does a freedom of information request give you the data that the NSA collects on you?

[kej → parimm]

Some people tried this when the first Snowden leaks came out, and were promptly shut down with a response that revealing what information they had on that individual would indirectly reveal what information they had on everyone, thereby threatening national security.

[a3n → kej]

> thereby threatening national security.

A couple words missing:

... thereby threatening the national security agency.

[corndoge → parimm]

NSA is not covered by FOIA. Try making a request on FOIA.gov, they aren't even in the list of agencies.

[rangibaby → corndoge]

We'll have to raid NSA HQ before they... wipe their HDDs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Storming_the_Stasi_headqu...