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Hey NSA — I’m Out Here!

Aug 28, 2013
by Caroline Miller
"Hey! Stop Watching Me!", National Security Agency, Stanley Bing, Victoria's Secrets
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Facebook, “…the single greatest possessor of customer data on the planet,” has recently lost one of its top executives to the National Security Agency (NSA). So writes Stanley Bing in Fortune magazine. (“Hey! Stop Watching Me!” by Stanley Bing, Fortune, July 2013, pg. 156) Nonetheless, the company hasn’t missed a beat and continues to accumulate personal information on 6 million users. (Ibid pg. 156.) Bing assumes he’s one of them because everywhere he goes on the internet, he gets messages asking him if he’d like to make a new friend. (I’m guessing one or two of them might work for NSA.)

 I used to share Bing’s paranoia, thinking that every word I wrote on the web was “being perused, parsed, passed along for amusement or exploitation?” (Ibid p. 156). Unsure about the level of electronic prying, I even considered giving up my flannel pajamas for something lacey from Victoria’s Secrets. One never knows.

 But yesterday, I lost all my paranoia. That’s when a fellow writer, via the web, chortled her new blog had just received its 42,000 hit. Yikes! It’s taken me three years to approach that number. Now that really makes this old broad feel neglected. How come nobody’s watching me?

 Hey NSA, I’m out here! And I’m headed for Victoria’s Secrets.

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(Courtesy of http://www.freerepublic.com)

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. Christine Webb August 28, 2013 at 7:31 am Reply
    :) Caroline, she might have chortled, but I am chuckling. Very happy to say, this morning, that you are now 1 hit closer to your mark. Very fun way to begin the day... :)
    • Caroline Miller August 28, 2013 at 7:55 am Reply
      Glad I gave you a laugh, Chris. I wish I could do that for everyone every day but the world just isn't that funny. Still, I look for my opportunities because putting a smile on someone's face ranks high with me.

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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.

Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens.  She also published the story Gustav Pavel,  a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.

Caroline has published four novels

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  • Trompe l’Oeil
  • Gothic Spring
  • Heart Land

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