{"id":1003,"date":"2013-08-27T13:34:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T17:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2013-08-27T13:34:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T17:34:37","slug":"you-look-way-prettier-in-person-than-through-your-webcam-nsapickuplines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/2013\/08\/27\/you-look-way-prettier-in-person-than-through-your-webcam-nsapickuplines\/","title":{"rendered":"“You look way prettier in person than through your webcam”: #NSAPickupLines"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week’s #IMWeekly news roundup<\/a>, we reported that at least ten NSA officers have used the agency’s surveillance power to spy on their romantic partners over the past decade—a practice deemed “LOVEINT” by the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, which broke the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, NPR reported<\/a> that Twitter users have taken the story and run with it, posting satirical pick-up lines and love poems under the hashtags #NSAPickupLines<\/a> and #NSALovePoems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some of the most amusing tweets we’ve seen so far:<\/p>\n

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Via @MitraEbadolahi<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Via @klediol<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Via @samir<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Via @PRISM_NSA<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The revelation that several NSA employees have used the agency’s surveillance power to spy on romantic partners has sparked a wave of satirical love poems and pick-up lines. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13363,3619,1860],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-surveillance","category-united-states"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4L9BV-gb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internetmonitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}