Google's Freebie Statistics Shed Light on US Secret Spying Surveillance

TVP Reached 5,400 People Last Month -- NSA's PRISM Program Spied on 100 Million+ Americans Yesterday Plus Untold Numbers of Citizens of Other Nations

US Spy Chief Denis Clapper, apologizes
for lying to the Senate and the US public
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/308979-clapper-apologies-for-erroneous-statement-to-congress-on-us-data-collection

The top countries who viewed TVP in June were: US, Canada, UK and Russia.

Since I began TomsViewPoint six years ago, TVP readers from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia/New Zealand have accessed TVP 66,000 times.

Google's free statistical analysis provides TomsViewPoint with metadata about my website - the number of readers, where they live by country and what computer systems they use.     

This free detailed data is instantaneously available to me from Google whenever I need it. 

All-time TVP pageviews, as of 7-1-2013
supplied free of charge by Google

Given the fact that Google provides me with detailed data without charge, consider the enormous power that US government spy agencies wield, with virtually unlimited resources, measured in $billions and staffs of tens of thousands of Top Secret cleared experts who have the power to access, analyse and compile secret dossiers on millions of people all over the world. And note that these Top Secret metadata files and reports on people are all being archived for future use.

NSA's secret trove of people's metadata from: emails, Internet usage, digital telephony and credit card business transactions may not be illegal under the Patriot Act's draconian legislation, but it surely violates the privacy rights of US citizens, enshrined in the Bill of Rights, Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.

CATCH-22 REDUX 

The constitutionality of US government spying has not been tested in the courts, due to the Catch-22 of being classified Top Secret and therefore unavailable for citizens' scrutiny. The FISA oversight court's activities and warrants are secret, preventing elected officials, whose duty it is to protect citizens' constitutional rights, from divulging what they have discovered in Top Secret briefing papers and what they have been told in secret briefings meetings by spy chiefs.

Two members of the Senate, Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Tom Udall (D-Colo.), members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, have tried, time and again, to warn Americans about the dangers of secret US surveillance activities, but their efforts have been hampered by the Top Secret nature of official briefings. 

US spy agencies are collecting digital data on Americans using sophisticated automated data mining techniques that: track and record their movements from place to place; know whom they contact; list what they buy from whom, when and where; plus a long list of additional information that the average citizen cannot begin to imagine. 

Despite President Obama's assurances to the contrary, the NSA knows more about a person from their digital metadata than from the message content of their digital communications. 

Google graph of TomsViewPoint readers
available from Google free of charge

If Google can, without any charge, instantaneously send me free numerical statistics and sophisticated graphs on TVP's readership such as:

• hits by day, week, month and all-time
• pageviews by country
• frequency of hits by title
• pageviews by sourcing sites  
• pageviews hits by keywords
• URL referring sites
• pageview hits by browser type
• pageview hits by operating system
• and more

imagine what the US spy agencies can put together with multi-billion $$$ budgets and super-facilities that have the capacity to store a reported one trillion metadata files per day.

It's no wonder that those concerned with Fourth Amendment privacy rights, see the enormous proliferation of US spying on American citizens and the people of the world to be a clear violation and abuse of basic human rights.  

In a subsequent postings TVP will report and analyse details on the revelations of US clandestine spying coming to light on a daily basis. TVP will explicate how this deplorable spying is unjustified and counterproductive to protecting Americans against terrorist threats.