Since we all live under the umbrella of biometrics and mug shots from the airport to some major urban sites, it is common courtesy to come down to Earth and remember ourself that the government is not the big eye over our shoulders. The San Francisco Chronicle published two years ago an article featuring a court case that involved AT&T, where a privacy-right lawsuit was the center of attention. Electronic surveillance of phone records and email was recorded and given to the NSA, in order to spy upon the costumers for alleged safety reasons.
The endless wires that are continuously tapped contains informations that is valuable to market research, so picture a company like AT&T that has great deal of informations on you: what you like, what you don't, your food preferences, rants, secrets, and all those discussions that are handled by more than one organization.
Now we have government institutions that can have any reason to create a case against you using you very own words. Probably you are discussing about a video game that involves shooting, explosions, or more violence, and in no time uncle Sam is putting his shoe on your face.
God only knows what policies are used by those nations that handles sensible and private informations. In the US the Bush administration has made clear that privacy will be compromised upon their discretion, which means whenever they want, how much they want, to whoever they want. Single or multiple targets is irrelevant as long as a database is built by the NSA, CIA, and other intelligence offices all over the globe.
If the US government is collecting all these informations, are there any chances that the data will be kept safe from unwanted purposes, like commercial ones? Probably no, since the Bush administration is way too close to corporation that are ager to lay their paws on those personal records, which are worth millions of dollars.
The endless wires that are continuously tapped contains informations that is valuable to market research, so picture a company like AT&T that has great deal of informations on you: what you like, what you don't, your food preferences, rants, secrets, and all those discussions that are handled by more than one organization.
Now we have government institutions that can have any reason to create a case against you using you very own words. Probably you are discussing about a video game that involves shooting, explosions, or more violence, and in no time uncle Sam is putting his shoe on your face.
God only knows what policies are used by those nations that handles sensible and private informations. In the US the Bush administration has made clear that privacy will be compromised upon their discretion, which means whenever they want, how much they want, to whoever they want. Single or multiple targets is irrelevant as long as a database is built by the NSA, CIA, and other intelligence offices all over the globe.
If the US government is collecting all these informations, are there any chances that the data will be kept safe from unwanted purposes, like commercial ones? Probably no, since the Bush administration is way too close to corporation that are ager to lay their paws on those personal records, which are worth millions of dollars.
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