Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Are we establishing a 24 hour surveillance society?

The government and corporations are aggressively collecting information about your personal life and your habits. They want to track your purchases, your medical records, and even your relationships. The Bush Administration's policies, coupled with invasive new technologies, could eliminate your right to privacy completely. Could this hypothetical pizza ordering scenario actually happen? Click on the Pizza Palace graphic to see the (card carrying) ACLU's presentation.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Republican calls for email and IM monitoring

Republican calls for email and IM monitoring - vnunet.com:

A bill introduced to the US House of Representatives would require ISPs to record all users' surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely.

The bill, dubbed the Safety Act by sponsor Lamar Smith, a republican congressman from Texas, would impose fines and a prison term of one year on ISPs which failed to keep full records.

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