Today, the
big news on CNN is that
NSA is collecting phone records from three major phone service providers. It was a USA Today
reporter who broke the
story. Apparently, anyone can get these "call logs" on the internet, which is also pretty creepy.
And what happened to this
inquiry?
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So many issues so little time. I think the government is trying to go even further with controlling the communication organizations. Does your telephone company care? Nope because they are still getting paid and its not their phone info they are giving away. I was watching Bill Maher the other day and a good point was made. First, the wire taps that the government would like to use are ILLEGAL. Second, people don't really care if it will "protect them from terrorism". But the funny thing about this is that they listen to a phone tree and it is possible that I will have a raid on my house if i called someone and 200 people later, some person in my line talked to a would be terrorist.
I didnt realize the inquiry was dead, but figures with this government. Too often they get their way and go along merrily destroying our civil rights.
On a different note, I am surprised you haven't posted anything about the net neutrality law yet.
@ Eric -- Welcome back.
I was looking through some of the controversy regarding the ethical and legal implications of the NYT story that exposed the President's warrantless wiretaps. It would seem that exposing alleged government transgressions is a criminal activity because of the anti-Espionage Act, which is kind of ironic.
As for Network Neutrality, I believe this principle should be fiercely protected but I'm leaving it to experts to spread the word (atleast for now).
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