[Future Snake Eater]

I work in an intel unit and we always have to be very, very careful when it comes to surveillance b/c of all the laws on the books about monitoring U.S. citizens.

Looks like if I just drive down the street to the NSA, then the laws are null and void!

[muawiyah]

We made use of detailed operating information from major mailers for the purpose of auditing those operations to see if they were within statistical control ~ and if so, the mailer's mailing statements could be trusted ~ this involved about 30 billion bucks BTW ~ not a small item.

We had a situation where top management wanted us to set up all our computers so that any information our auditors had would be downloaded and backed up on the main system EVERY DAY.

I already knew there were 17 separate federal laws that PROHIBITED that action to the degree any of the information subect to 'backup' belonged to a third party.

So, I objected.

Eventually I won although the batarde behind the daily backup stuff also tried to restrict us to no more than one computer per specialist/auditor.

What a tard ~ he was taken out blind folded shortly after I retired.

So far those 17 federal laws are still on the books and the penalty is applicable to any manager who directs a violation, or any subordinate who takes an action in violation of those laws, or any one of those laws.

The penalties all include fines and imprisonment.

That's not even involving federal security violations. NSA employees and contractors are subject to those 17 laws plus all the security laws.

Only a very special sort of person knowingly violates any of them ~ normal people don't!

BTW, the words of wisdom are simple ~ if you can't deal with it go get another job.