Thursday, February 4, 2010

Police Want Backdoor Access to Your Private Web Info

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10446503-38.html

Be angry. Be very angry. The police are trying to violate your 4th Amendment rights protecting you from illegal search and seizure.

"The 289-page report detailed how the FBI obtained Americans' telephone records by citing nonexistent emergencies and simply asking for the data or writing phone numbers on a sticky note rather than following procedures required by law."

(See the report here: http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s1001r.pdf)

Couple this intrusion with the tendency towards (nay, the Law of) Mission Creep (anything the government proposes as a mission statement will grow to include anything else that can possibly be brought under the scope of that mission statement), and the teaming up of Google and the National Security Agency, and you have a big problem.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020304057_pf.html

Why is this a big problem? Well, I'll let you connect the dots on that, but suffice it to say that when Big Sister (Janet Napolitano) over at the Department of Homeland Security can declare people with "Don't Tread On Me" bumper stickers to be possible domestic terrorists (http://newsmax.com/Newsfront/homeland-security/2009/04/14/id/329451) while the federal government gives civilian rights to the real terrorists, let's just say nothing is out of the question.

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