Intelligence Deputy to America: Rethink your definition of privacy!
Neocon nutballs don't worry about
privacy. Just change the definition.
Donald Kerr, principal deputy director of national intelligence, wants Americans to redefine privacy.
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information.
And don’t they have a stellar track record at doing just that?
The most contentious issue in the new legislation is whether to shield telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to people’s private e-mails and phone calls without a FISA court order between 2001 and 2007.
The central witness in a California lawsuit against AT&T says the government is vacuuming up billions of e-mails and phone calls as they pass through an AT&T switching station in San Francisco, California.
The thug in the White House has promised to veto any bill that does not grant Telcos immunity from suits such as this one.
Kurt Opsahl from the EFF stated, “There is something fundamentally different from the government having information about you than private parties,” he said. “We shouldn’t have to give people the choice between taking advantage of modern communication tools and sacrificing their privacy.”
“It’s just another ‘trust us, we’re the government.”
Thanks, KB
Posted: Mon - November 12, 2007 at 09:46 PM