As for the cell phones, any fool who thought they weren't being monitored already has his head in the sand. I forget the name of the company in Jersey, but in archives cell records on a national basis for "marketing and research" purposes already.
The news in this article is old news in "the land of the free"
This whole scenario is rather chilling...
Can you give me and example of one?
I think they have to be on for this to work, but I recall hearing about one coming out which may transcend that.
American's have had more liberty from government, but I don't think American's have ever been more 'free' from prying eyes and social pressures as they go about their business than we are today. The internet and computer technology has invested us with unprecedented power and anonymity that is being abused. It's inevitable that something will need to come along to balance that out, be it private databases or government eavesdropping.
I doubt that any of the chicken-littles on this thread noticed it, but the article states that the, "police will still require a warrant to intercept the content of electronic communications". Some may not even notice it after reading it again in my post…
I found a feature list of 'anonymous' browsers.
And here's an article dismissing anonymous browsers.
Even if logs are not kept, what do you think are the odds that some agency isn't intercepting all the traffic to and from these things.