Human nature, really.
Are any of us really surprised, courtesy of news in the post Snowden disclosure informational age, that NSA agents, when given access to databases and equipment with which to monitor others, instinctually gravitated toward checking in on lost loves and exes?
Let he or she who hasn't been exposed to a national database at your place of employment and who didn't then "practice" by searching on names from his or her past cast the first virtual stone here, am I right? [Not that I did anything with that information -- I mean, not that the "he or she" I'm referencing would have ever hypothetically done anything with that information ...]
[Hmmm ... I should probably stop now whilst I'm ahead, and before anyone reviews my resume and starts guessing as to the databases to which I've been exposed over the years.]
NOT SURPRISED:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/27/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog-idUSBRE98Q14G20130927
OF COURSE THEY DID:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/09/loveint-given-immense-powers-nsa-employees-super-cyber-stalked-their-crushes/
NOT THAT YOU SHOULD FOLLOW THEIR LEAD OR ANYTHING:
http://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2013/09/legal-to-secretly-spy-on-your-spouse.html
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