'The End of Privacy'

[Mariella Froster]

By Elliot Cohen

Amid the controversy brewing in the [US] Senate over Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform, the Bush administration appears to have changed its strategy and is devising a bold new plan that would strip away FISA protections in favor of a system of wholesale government monitoring of every American’s Internet activities. Now the national director of intelligence is predicting a disastrous cyber-terrorist attack on the U.S. if this scheme isn’t instituted.

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[smiffy]

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Perhaps you shouldn't be cutting and pasting it, then.

[Asi-Irish]

No, no (9/11), no!

You're wr(9/11)ong!

The TERRORISTS are coming (9/11), so we NEED the government to (9/11) read our e-mail and (9/11) monitor our pornography (9/11) viewing so they can use it to blackmail us at a later date..ahem, I mean.. so they can protect (9/11) us from the TERRORISTS (9/11).

[Super Awesome]

How the US gov can get away with this is beyond me, the potential for abuse is unreal.

There is no doubt the receiver of this information can use or supply it for their or somebody else’s benefit. The US government itself has been supplying intercepted information to certain US companies since the early 90’s.

Here is an extract from Iain Munro’s book ‘Information Warfare In Business: Strategies Of Control And Resistance’ (very good read I must say).