National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for monitoring all e-mails, file transfers, and web searches, and will set up a battle that McConnel says would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park."
From Raw Story:"Ed Giorgio, who is working with McConnell on the plan, said that would mean giving the government the authority to examine the content of any e-mail, file transfer or Web search," author Lawrence Wright pens.
“Google has records that could help in a cyber-investigation, he said," Wright adds. "Giorgio warned me, 'We have a saying in this business: ‘Privacy and security are a zero-sum game.'"
A zero-sum game is one in which gains by one side come at the expense of the other. In other words -- McConnell's aide believes greater security can only come at privacy's expense.
This is why some are concerned when companies like Facebook or Google track every web search and collect detailed personal information. It's not just about being bombarded by marketing. It's what that information may be used for down the road that is alarming.
Every presidential candidate—Democrat or Republican—should be asked about their position on this invasion of privacy. No one who supports McConnell's plan deserves to hold the office.
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this is not really new, except for the volume of stuff.... backdoors are in everything, windows, google, facebook, you name it, nsa or the justice department can peak in from the back side....
and it is unavoidable, for one reason only, consciousness can already know things beyond the mind, ask any mystic, yogi, meditator... and technology is only the external manifestation of consciousness out into the 3D world...
so, enjoy omniscience
gregory
Posted by gregory | January 15, 2008 1:18 PM