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It turns out when it comes to snooping on the affairs of citizens' in the digital era, Big Brother is just an amateur compared to his Facebook and Google brethren. Sure the NSA has been collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers and can tap into pretty much anything they'd like to. But the NSA doesn't have the resources and manpower it takes to monitor all the conversations and activity that take place.