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[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

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[hardblue.livejournal.com]

"You have the Internet; I don't need a warrant," says the NSA.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Collecting metadata isn't the same as kicking in your door and shooting your dog.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

True, and it's not as traumatic, I suppose, but it is
also much more thorough and effective in our age,
Isn't it? This way, they know everything.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

With metadata, they don't have to.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

(not that they won't find a reason to shoot your dog)

[telemann.livejournal.com]

They're sly like that.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

If they want to be grossed out by my porn viewing habits, well I don't consider it a very good use of tax dollars but I don't really care. Assuming our privacy is intact online has always seemed dubious. I know someone who was railing about access to cell phone data 15 years ago. Unless one has a text-based drug dealing service, shouldn't be an issue.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Well it's more than that; but I'm glad at least one federal judge has ruled it unconstitutional, and has allowed individuals to pursue legal action against the goverment for it.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

I'll be curious to see if any of those suits are allowed to go to trial or what the outcome will be.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was the judge's ruling, to allow those suits to go forward because the surveillance is likely unconstitutional. But he stayed any action, pending further appeals.

[hittokiri-korru.livejournal.com]

Oh the chronic paranoia of some people that the government is out to get them!

Guess somebody stole their "don't tread on me" doormat.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Just because they're paranoid. . . .

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

make sure you dont shoot yourself in the head while you are handcuffed in a squad car!

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

[bikinisquad3000.livejournal.com]

I never knew Daryl Hannah was a member.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

The band is actually all Daryl Hannahs