dzolcali said:
but they can if they want to...isn't that the point? Even still...i wasn't just making up that idea, there really is a huge database recording calls..maybe or maybe not conversations, but phone calls none the less. From what I know again...the phone companies are starting to advertise call secracy type incentives when signing up saying that they are against people using or paying for your call records(since that's legal to do evidently) a lot of people are starting to come out about that saying it's invasion of privacy as well, it's not just the government doing this but it's sad that they would especially where it states in the first paragraph..10's of millions of everyday households who aren't suspects. That means your tax paying money is going into investigating millions of people not at fault for anything.
Seperating the chaff from the wheat is the name of the game, right along with trying to prevent attacks, instead of just reacting to them.
If you can figure out a way to do this, without infringing on anybodies privacy, be sure and let the NSA know your solution, Im sure they would be interested.
It's typical for somebody to blame the current administration for failing to protect the public and at the same time for the public to demand privacy, due process, Habious Corpus and other civil rights not be abridged. I don't really think the legislated restricitons, make it plausible or even possible to prevent and protect seriously. When theory and practicality clash, I generally come down on the side of practicality and try to fine tune the process at a later date and placate the handwringers.
People often have a tendancy to underestimate the enemy, I assume they are at least as bright as we are and will likely have a solution to most any problem or find a way around most obsticals. Keeping the rules static (at least on our side), seems like a sure way to be outmanuvered to me.
I do think the privacy legislation should be directed at private concerns and relaxed as far as governement is concerned. Private information gatherers are much more likely IMO to have agendas, the current governement can always be voted out, if they are a bit too succesfull in there info mining operations. Where the private sector would be monitarily rewarded, most likely, for there excesses.
The potential for excess is there for both government and the private sector. I worry less about government excesses than I do aobut private sector excesses, because the governement is often much less efficient than the private sector.:roll: