Fishing in Cyberspace
Editorial
New York Timess, 1/21/2006

Enough is never enough, not when the government believes that it can invade your privacy without repercussions. The Justice Department wants a federal judge to force Google to turn over millions of private Internet searches. Google is rightly fighting the demand, but the government says America Online, Yahoo and MSN, Microsoft's online service, have already complied with similar requests.

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NSA Spying Program

Tweety writes that in implementing the NSA spying program, the administration may have believed the surveillance of innocent American citizens would not be indefinite. This might have made it an easier sell for those members of Congress they were obliged to inform. The author believes the biggest mistake the Bush administration made may have been believing they needed to circumvent the legal system to implement this program (By Sifu Tweety, Blog: The Poor Man)

Domestic Spying

President Bush signed a secret order in 2002 authorizing the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens and foreign nationals in the United States, despite previous legal prohibitions against such domestic spying, sources with knowledge of the program said last night. (By Dan Eggen, The Washington Post)

Which one of the following "online" items do you think infringe on your privacy:

1. Someone posts on their blog/web a story that that they saw you in
a nudist beach in your birthday suite.

2. The posting on the web of the sell price of your house.

3. The posting on the web of your IRS tax return last year.

4. The posting on the web of your age (date of birth).

5. The posting on the web of your "mother maiden name"

6. The posting on the web of all your previous place of residence.

Famous quotes about "Privacy"

“You have zero privacy. Get over it.” – Scott McNealy, 1999