Thursday, June 22, 2006
Uncle Sam Wants YOU to Kiss Your Privacy Rights Good-Bye
An AP article yesterday revealed that Federal and local police are gathering citizen phone records without subpoenas through the use of “data brokers” who literally lie, cheat and steal to get the information. The article, which the T-S ran yesterday on page C7, quoted Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-KY as saying the data brokers “can basically obtain any information about anybody on any subject.” Yes folks, freedom is on the march – right out the back door into the secret information gathering rooms at AT&T and into the massive databases of the so-called National Security Agency.
The methods used by these data brokers were revealed to Congress yesterday.
Speaking of AT&T, the giant telecom is changing its privacy policy so that your phone records can be delivered right into the hands of the lying, spying
See, don’t you feel better? They are not stealing your phone records and personal information to give to the government, they are simply handing over what’s theirs. It’s a property thing. Nine-tenths of the law, you know.
