Just how much information becomes unmanageable?

[napi21]

I'm listening to Mike Malloy, and he's talking about all the information the Feds are collecting in a database called Main Core. There's no doubt in my mind that that's being done, but at what point does too much information simply become too much?

I know what they're doing is illegal, and Should STOP. But I have to question what the real results are. Remember the FBI saying they were getting so much info, they simply were overwhelmed. They couldn't translate it fast enough.

If what Mike is reporting is true, and they are collecting all emails, credit card transactions, phone calls and who to and from, and web sites visited, at what point do they get SO MUCH INFO, it's unmanageable?

[anigbrowl]

1. Ask Google. They seem to be managing just fine.

[napi21]

3. HAA! Google is a well run operation! What part of Gov't have you seen

that compares to Google? I haven't seen ANY!

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Not possible.

The purpose of collecting so much information is not to make sense of it, but to connect to as many people as possible to predetermined "elements".

[papapi]

4. The gov doesn't 'collect' it all, they monitor all and sift out what they think is . . .

important enough to note. Like who sent a donation to NORML or who bought 500 pounds of fertilizer. They use complicated alogrithms to link what they consider risks to individuals. Then when the time comes, they already know who they need to go after. Very effect. All fascist governments in the pass have done this. Our current government is just more highly efficent at it.