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Warrentless wiretaping is 'digging through your possessions'. It is 'strip searching your family'. This is not 'oops, I put my drunk picture public on Facebook.
by mhurron 14y ago
Warrentless wiretaping is 'digging through your possessions'. It is 'strip searching your family'. This is not 'oops, I put my drunk picture public on Facebook.'
That email is stored. It is cataloged. It is cross referenced with every other email that is sent. It is referenced with every crime that is investigated that even remotely has the same keywords as that mail. It is indexed in relation to those you associate with and those they associate with. It is used to create a profile of every little subversive or thing you may ever be tangentially associated with and used against you.
This bill allows it to be done warentless because otherwise a warrent would be required.
To relate this to what you choose to put on a social networking site is not even in the same ballpark as what the NSA is doing here.