Posted on 04/15/2010 10:19:25 AM PDT by Texas Peartree
Imagine the year is 2005. The Bush Administration seeks to look at private Instant Messages and emails of American citizens. When companies like Yahoo and Google push back, the Bush Administration argues that since Instant Messages are not stored solely (or at all in some cases) on a person's computer, but are stored in the computing cloud, there is no expectation of privacy. Thus, the government does not even need a warrant. Furthermore, in this scenario, what if the Bush Justice Department on behalf of the FBI took the position that opened email stored in the internet cloud (read: Hotmail, Gmail, etc.) could also be reviewed by the federal government without a warrant?
Do you think the media might have gone thermonuclear about this incredible abridgment of American's right to privacy. (By the way, I know the right-to-privacy is a made up liberal right to allow abortion, but if it does exist, then surely it exists for emails and Instant Messages.)
Well, the Obama Administration has taken this privacy-busting approach, and almost no media has reported it. I do not watch network news, but has Katie Couric asked President Obama about this? Here is a link to the story, but prepare to be outraged: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002423-38.html.
(Excerpt) Read more at corybirenbaum.blogspot.com ...
read your emails
track your cellphones
log your web visits for the past 2 years
its only a start
Privacy can not co-exist with a totalitarian state.
Very serious stuff.
ping & bump
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