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Originally Posted by flstf
You are probably right in that the courts have/will say that this monitoring activity is OK. I guess I look at it as if the postal dept. is required to open and copy all your mail or asking the phone company to record all your conversations. Also, the proposal is to maintain our activity and correspondence for one year but I can easily see them requiring them to monitor you forever.
I think I read a while back in one of Bill Gate's books where he predicted that one day we would all be required to carry credit card sized GPS trackers and the info would be fed into national computers so the gov would know where you were within a few feet during your lifetime. This is to protect you from being charged for crimes when you were not there, etc.., LOL.
I wonder how far our government should be allowed to monitor us and whether we have any constitutional protection against blanket surveillance.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I read the article to say that an ISP is required to simply maintain a record that you sent an email or looked at a sight, not what that email said or what you specifically posted to that site. I see it as more of a phone company analogy where they maintain a record that you called a specific number but not what you said. Did I misread the data being collected?