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If you're a US Citizen you don't have to worry about your information, since the NSA is forbidden by law from collecting information about US Citizens.
by maukdaddy 16y ago
If you're a US Citizen you don't have to worry about your information, since the NSA is forbidden by law from collecting information about US Citizens.
- mikeknoop 16y ago* I learned this while playing Splinter Cell.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoThe phone companies are also forbidden by law from collecting this data. That didn't stop them from doing so a few years back, and the Congress helpfully gave them immunity after the fact. Legislative guarantees of privacy and other freedoms are no guarantees at all.
- metamemetics 16y agocough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_co... cough It's also important to update the ECPA because it would apply to ANY federal agency. There were a series of links to HN where cell phone companies built backend web apps for law enforcement officials to track people's phone location without warrents as long as they told the phone company it was for an emergency. In other words, it was being used by police to track the location of labor union protestors in one instance, the article confirmed. The law needs to be updated due to a multitude of issues, such as Amazon.com being requested by the Department of Revenue to give them access to customer purchase history. Even on a basic level, is this something that programmers or web developers on HN want to be developing or maintaining?
- patrickgzill 16y agoI do not believe that anymore.
- smallblacksun 16y agoIf you are a US Citizen within the US talking to another US citizen within the US, this is true.