I'm scared.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T for passing the traffic on its network backbones and communication databases directly to the National Security Agency (NSA). In short, the NSA was spying on every AT&T internet or telephone customer in the United States, as well as anybody else whose data happened to travel over AT&T's lines en route to its destination. Obviously, this is an flagrant breach of the Fourth Amendment
Yesterday, the Feds filed a 'statement of interest' in the case. It says that the goverment intends to seek dismissal of the case, on the grounds that proceeding will reveal state secrets. The gov't is attempting to remove all accountability to the people, even in a case where the issue is that they're massively violating the Constitutionally-granted rights of those very people!*
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* If that doesn't make you tremble with anger, I ask that you please leave this country. The UK and Australia are even further along than the USA in the transition to a police state - you should be happy in either place. Save America for those who value their freedom.
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Quoted from fourth amendment
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Not every incident where an officer ascertains information is considered a "search." An officer who views something which is publicly viewable (for instance, by looking through the window of a house from the street) is not conducting a "search" of the house. In Katz v. United States, 386 U.S. 954 (1967), the Supreme Court ruled that there is no search unless an individual has an "expectation of privacy" and the expectation is "reasonable"—that is, it is one that society is prepared to recognize. So, for example, there is generally no search when officers look through garbage because there is no expectation that garbage is private (see California v. Greenwood, 486 U.S. 35 (1988)). Similarly, there is no search where officers monitor what phone numbers an individual dials (although Congress has placed statutory restrictions on such monitoring).
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The Internet was not established as a secure or private means of transmitting data. Now if you use encryption and they are breaking that then you might have a case for expected privacy.
Save America for those who value their safety!
You talk about how unimportant privacy is, but you post AC? It seems that you have a poor understanding of your own feelings on the subject. Still, I can't help but feed the troll...
The government has effectively recreated a digital-network version of that stereotypical tool of oppressive regimes, the 'security checkpoint': 'Your papers, please,' they demand. The only reason that people like you aren't outraged is that you don't have to go through the trouble of waiting in traffic to pass through the roadblock. You are no different than the fools at the USPTO and in Congress who think that the Internet is a plaything and nothing more.
Another analogy... The NSA is doing the digital equivalent of reading your plaintext mail. They have to go out of their way to obtain your network data, just like they have to go out of their way to open an envelope (or to read the letter through the envelope). Your digital encryption suggestion implies that you think we should all expect the government to read any mail that we don't send in code. If the government has reason to believe that a) I've committed a crime and b) reading my mail will prove it, they're welcome to try to get a warrant for my mail. Otherwise, they have no right to see it!
Like so many people in today's world, you have a crippling inability to make accurate comparisons between meatspace and cyberspace. I'd be happy to continue this conversation, but only if you will end your hipocrisy by posting under your real name.
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Maybe they will even make a family wagon model.
Tom
BTW, i wish there was a place to put random comments on your blog, and not have them be associated to one of your posts. Possible?
Tom
A family wagon model of what??
http://news.digitaltrends.com/article10425.html
Good link?
Sorry the link didn't work. try this one.
Tom
Nobody who enjoys driving could ever buy that car, no matter what body style. All Lexus models besides the IS are complete snoozefests.
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