"Two Senators have been warning for months that the government has a secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act so broad that it amounts to an entirely different law — one that gives the feds massive domestic surveillance powers, and keeps the rest of us in the dark about the snooping…. The Senators tried to get the government to reveal some of the law’s contents, by forcing the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General to produce a report outlining when this secret surveillance has gone overboard. Yesterday, the effort failed. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said no to the report by rejecting Wyden and Udall’s amendment to the FY2012 Intelligence Authorization Act. In other words: we are all still in the dark about how the government is spying on us."
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It's nice to see that your local police are also catching up with the feds' nebulous powers, given that your ISP will soon be required to keep a record (under your name) of all your Internet activity for the past year just in case the police want it.
@Gef the Talking Mongoose Thanks for this.
"To make it politically difficult to oppose, proponents of the data retention requirements dubbed the bill the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, even though the mandatory logs would be accessible to police investigating any crime and perhaps attorneys litigating civil disputes in divorce, insurance fraud, and other cases as well."
I'm tired of these Rovean ruses. I think there should be a law called something like Protecting The Statute Book From Laws With Orwellian Names.
@scrooge : To get it through committee, though, you'll have to call it the Protecting Cute Fuzzy Doggies Who's A Good Boy Who Is Who Is Act.
Wayne Jarvis told us this long ago.