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Goverment Spying is Evil!
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Ok i posted a thread like this before,
I am writing a paper on how the Goverment effects the internet (mainly security)
one point i would like to make to all you people that you may not be aware of (its part of my report)
Recent media reports have revealed that a little-known Defense Department office is developing a computer system called �Terrorism Information Awareness� that threatens to turn us all into "suspects" without proof of criminal wrongdoing.
The system, which includes an advanced form of �data-mining,� would effectively provide government officials with immediate access to our personal information such as all of our communications such as phone calls, emails and web searches, financial records, purchases, prescriptions, school records, medical records and travel history. Under this program, our entire lives would be catalogued and available to government.
While the proponents of Terrorism Information Awareness have argued that such snooping should be accepted as part of the "War on Terrorism," it is clear that they are going to far. While running for the presidency, George W. Bush said that he wanted to defend individual privacy. Yet the Defense Department program makes a mockery of such privacy protections and threatens to break though the judicial and Congressional restraints that have protected the public against domestic spying. President Bush is now threatening to veto a spending bill because it would protect our privacy which in my opion would be a good thing.
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2003-12-11, 09:18 PM
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