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We are under permanent surveillance.
This is part of a larger trend in which the government gains access to every aspect of our private lives: medical records, phone records, web sites surfed, library records, warrantee records, every financial transaction you ever made (believe me cash is going away soon to support this), your location in real-time or anywhere you've ever been accompanied by your cell phone, any video or cctv image you ever appeared in as cross-referenced by your cell-phone gps location, the location of your car as monitored by traffic cameras, and eventually RFID enabled sensors in the road, ... Do I have to continue? We are living in the biggest police state ever imagined.

The beauty of the government's legal strategy is, they don't have to pay for any of it, Corporate America and every Joe Bagadonutz will. They will just swoop in when they care to, and assemble a dossier on you that would have made J. Edgar Hoover orgasmic.

Remember, the goverment will eventually try to normalize and expand whatever special rights they gain to prosecute "egregious" crimes such as mafia activity, drug smuggling, sex offenses, computer crimes, gang banging, car theft, drunk driving, etc etc etc etc (is any crime not egregious to someone?).

Want to really fight the war on terror? Start here!
Posted by: Compute_This   Posted on: 01/24/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Privacy...  JimmyJackFunk21 | 01/23/07
Anonymizer  Grolan | 01/24/07
"Privacy" is not mentioned in the Constitution  NeverLift | 01/24/07
Many precedents for "privacy"  Allstar_z | 01/24/07
I must disagree.  studentCoder | 01/25/07
Are they going to pay ISPs to buy the storage?  critic-at-arms | 01/24/07
Let AG Gonzales take up the slack . . .  Xojo | 01/24/07
We are under permanent surveillance.  Compute_This | 01/24/07
We are under permanent surveillance  rsouza@... | 01/24/07
Good grief  maldain | 01/24/07
Good grief  rsouza@... | 01/24/07
Good grief  tubr0 | 01/25/07
Already evil!!  sbarringer@... | 01/25/07
Have to agree  Leria | 01/24/07
So, you're a communist?  ceheinzm | 01/24/07
Perhaps you should spend some time with the citizens of Amsterdam before yo  frodo@... | 01/25/07
Post would be funny if not so pathetic  studentCoder | 01/25/07
Privacy  7h3C4tm4n | 01/24/07
cybercrime  sjaaxken | 01/24/07
It hasn't passed the Judiciary yet  maldain | 01/24/07
so why would this be a problem?  barefoot1976 | 01/24/07
There is no constitutional right to privacy.  NeverLift | 01/24/07
Wiretaps VS manditory storage...  Allstar_z | 01/24/07
ISPs don't have to save every email, either  studentCoder | 01/25/07
Apples to Apples  Adarro | 01/25/07
The Terrorist Method  studentCoder | 01/25/07
Right to privacy  AH McGee | 01/25/07
Pay? Of Course Not  jlzimm | 01/24/07
Bah..... whats the biggie.  roddic | 01/24/07
It's OK for the ChiComms, just not for us?  jlafitte | 01/24/07
Personal motivation  Adarro | 01/25/07
I Just Don't Trust Bush Admin, Period  tonym87@... | 01/24/07
I just don't trust ANY admin, period  Stan_Krute | 01/24/07
I agree  Dr_Zinj | 01/25/07
Free Countries  tonym87@... | 01/24/07
Orwell just had the year wrong!  flustered | 01/24/07
snooping...  bgonetoo | 01/24/07
Let's make it easier...  Allstar_z | 01/24/07
Double speak  sbarringer@... | 01/25/07
Double speak  sbarringer@... | 01/25/07
Feds ISP Snooping!!!!!  catsend | 01/25/07
It is just a matter of time:  jklinger@... | 01/25/07
No, not like a traffic ticket at all  brian.clark@... | 01/26/07
store surveillance  gurudrew | 01/26/07
Civil Liberties?  Ezrest | 01/29/07

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