re: #306 piratedan

granted, just find it hard to believe that it’s perfectly okay for google and yahoo and msn to monitor their every keystroke and then inundate them with pop up ads with every fifteen clicks are somehow these bastions of security that they can’t be hacked by nefarious principals (for anything from your SSN to your banking account numbers) and that somehow the government using similar data mining methodology to figure out who is talking to whom in order to prevent a bomb from going off on a plan is somehow a bridge too far.

Wyden and Udall says it doesn’t prevent anything and they if we knew that facts we could decide for ourselves.

And as far as the corp use of our private data, this has spawned many efforts to change that. And I think that equating the govt use of data with private use is not possible. I search and use Google voluntarily and they sell me stuff that I buy voluntarily. There is room for abuse. The govt does NOT have the right to search me before they have a reasonable suspicion that I broke the law.