Friday, January 25, 2013

FBI vs ACLU: government surveillance and tracking

FBI to ACLU: Nope, we won’t tell you how, when, or why we track you | Ars Technica: "“The Justice Department’s unfortunate decision leaves Americans with no clear understanding of when we will be subjected to tracking—possibly for months at a time—or whether the government will first get a warrant,” Catherine Crump, an ACLU staff attorney, wrote on Wednesday. “This is yet another example of secret surveillance policies—like the Justice Department’s secret opinions about the Patriot Act’s Section 215—that simply should not exist in a democratic society. Privacy law needs to keep up with technology, but how can that happen if the government won’t even tell us what its policies are?” Needless to say, the ACLU says its fight isn’t over, and will move this further up the legal chain."

Big Brother is here.







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