Goodbye to Internet Privacy

If it ever existed.

Maybe the out-of-job, mods could hire on here:

Policing the Net
A last-minute addition to the bill last week, before the House approved it by a 299-121 vote, is the 16-page Cyber Security Enhancement Act. It stiffens prison terms for hackers, expands the ability of police to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping without first obtaining a court order, and grants Internet providers more latitude to disclose information about subscribers to police.

Note that telephone eavesdropping is also included.

Welcome to Bushy The Younger's defeat by the Religoius Reich whose aim it is to seek out and destroy all voices that might oppose God's Word, (or their intrepretation of it).

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/1544620.php

[wendy]

Wait...what was it that Ashcroft said back in '97?

SENATOR ASHCROFT HAD WARNED: 'KEEP BIG BROTHER'S HANDS OFF THE INTERNET': 'The [Clinton] administration's interest in all e-mail is a wholly unhealthy precedent, especially given this administration's track record on FBI files and IRS snooping. Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications' -- Ashcroft, Oct '97...


I guess we're supposed to be comforted by the fact that Bush is in office instead of clinton. ::)

Does anyone know if Ashcroft ever got over his fear of aluminum tits?