[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

First Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon have an attack of sanity, now Patrick Leahy and Ron Wyden.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[monkeyshine]

One small step.

[unixfox]

The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act accomplishes this by eliminating loopholes in federal law that have allowed federal agencies to purchase private data on millions of Americans without a court order or warrant.

IOW, they are using OUR money to gather OUR data. They should be lined up and shot.

[kaehurowing]

The government already has all your information.

All of it.

[familyop]

There was time not so long ago, that the privacy of our mail and telephone calls was far more well protected. Are your business plans kept from the eyes of unethical local competition? Are your private affairs protected from criminals? When anonymous individuals have access to your private effects, all information is for potentially sale to the wrong kinds of people.

More police work should be done with traditional methods. It’s good for people to get out and develop some discipline once in a while anyway (e.g., public surveillance for making trees of association between drug dealers and addicts on paper).