Proposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans' e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital files.
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kelvin 26 weeks 4 days 3 hours 36 min ago
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I have been taking it for granted that Big Brother has been reading anyone's email they desire at least since 9-11. Now they have the intercept capability and storage (at least once the Utah Stasi HQ is completed) to keep it all forever.
Understand this: Unencrypted email is just like a postcard. Except this postcard will be stored forever by the NSA.
This just latest decree just makes it "legal" (unconstitutional as hell, but "legal"). Just like many, many others thing they have been doing. They test-drive it, decide they like it, then get a law or Executive order to hide behind it. Sometimes they even refuse to let the serfs know how they are interpreting it.
Here's a bumper sticker for you:
"US constitution: Void Where Prohibited by Law"
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kelvin 26 weeks 4 days 3 hours 32 min ago
There seems to be no way to delete a post once you have made it. All you can do is edit it like this.....