[BITList] beware the electronic police state!

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Frank

Agree, I too cant understand what all the fuss is about – is a conspiracy afoot?. 

Intercepting communication is as old as communications - and the silly thing is legal internet/telephone data collection and analysis has been known for years by those who needed to know and anybody who wanted to know– it’s a critical tool for preventing terrorist attacks.

perhaps some would prefer to have privacy and then cry foul after the killing– why didn’t we know about this?, why didn’t the government stop it? 

In the US legal internet/telephone surveillance and data collection and analysis was enhanced by Bush in 2007; few complained about privacy then. Politicians voted for it. 

Opponents, including digital rights organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, cite concerns over individual privacy, freedom of speech, innovation, and consumer rights as justification for backing litigation against pro-surveillance policy.

Others consider the possibility of a totalitarian state where political dissent is impossible and opponents of state policy are removed in counter intelligence program - like purges. 

Such a state may be referred to as an Electronic Police State, in which the government aggressively uses electronic technologies to record, organize, search and distribute forensic evidence against its citizens. 


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Subject: [BITList] electronic communications

john
Cant understand what all the fuss is about, re communications being 
spied upon as it was made perfectly plain at the outset that all 
electronic communications should be treated as if being posted as a post 
card, ie open to be read by anyone interested enough to pick it up
frank

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