Privacy Vs Uncle Sam! Fight!
http://m.guardiannews.com/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi-boston
So there's an FBI counter terrorism guy out there saying that the US government records ALL digital communication in the US.
On Thursday night, Clemente again appeared on CNN, this time with host Carol Costello, and she asked him about those remarks. He reiterated what he said the night before but added expressly that "all digital communications in the past" are recorded and stored:
Let's repeat that last part: "no digital communication is secure", by which he means not that any communication is susceptible to government interception as it happens (although that is true), but far beyond that: all digital communications - meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats and the like - are automatically recorded and stored and accessible to the government after the fact. To describe that is to define what a ubiquitous, limitless Surveillance State is.
Clearly this needs a big grain of salt, but looking at this I can't help but feel a bit nervous. Whatever the case, it's growing ever more important that the media and the public watch what they government does like hawks. Because there has to be a line somewhere.
So there's an FBI counter terrorism guy out there saying that the US government records ALL digital communication in the US.
On Thursday night, Clemente again appeared on CNN, this time with host Carol Costello, and she asked him about those remarks. He reiterated what he said the night before but added expressly that "all digital communications in the past" are recorded and stored:
Let's repeat that last part: "no digital communication is secure", by which he means not that any communication is susceptible to government interception as it happens (although that is true), but far beyond that: all digital communications - meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats and the like - are automatically recorded and stored and accessible to the government after the fact. To describe that is to define what a ubiquitous, limitless Surveillance State is.
Clearly this needs a big grain of salt, but looking at this I can't help but feel a bit nervous. Whatever the case, it's growing ever more important that the media and the public watch what they government does like hawks. Because there has to be a line somewhere.