[dreamfactory]

Even if this were the case (and there are challenges as outlined by other commenters), it is entirely and obviously disproportionate. Do you seriously find it acceptable for your tax dollars to be spent this way?

Secondly, this all misses what I think was the real point of the story - that this is an outcome of the surveillance dragnet.

[MichaelGG]

Please explain "surveillance dragnet" - I didn't see any evidence of that in the translated article. I saw some "I wonder how they found my stage name", but unless he's taken some large precautions, that doesn't seem too far-fetched for Google to handle...

[dreamfactory]

He talked about them knowing about all his shows, stage name, and about facebook relationships. Translation is sketchy but he seems to be making a wider point that they knew about a bunch of stuff that would only be known by fairly broad and deep surveillance (as per the title of the article) and then applying a distorted interpretation.

[MichaelGG]

>fairly broad and deep surveillance

Also known as performing a search on Facebook? Just saying, there's an easy alternative explanation.